Christie's offers rare first edition 'Harry Potter' book at over $200,000

The first edition of “Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone” book , signed by the bestseller’s author J.K. Rowling, has been put up for a private sale at Christie's Auctions in London, with the auction house inviting offers starting from $250,000 (£200,000).

The publication is one of 500 hardback copies of the book that were released in the first print run in 1997. Three hundred copies of the book were sent to libraries, according to CNN.

Some mistakes were made in the first edition - the word "philosophical" was spelled incorrectly, and there are lexical repetitions in the text itself on page 53 where “1 Wand” is written twice.