8vo. Original color pictorial boards (slight lean); dust jacket (front panel lightly bumped and top and lower edge, spine a touch faded).

FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, with the complete number line on copyright. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets was published in the UK on 2 July 1998 and in the United States eleven months later. Despite Rowling's fears that the second installment may not live up to the first, Chamber of Secrets was an immediate bestseller, with Rowling becoming the first author to win the Children's Book of the Year at the British Book Awards two years in a row. It was later adapted into a widely beloved major motion picture. Errington A2(a).