A rare first edition of a Harry Potter book has sold for £36,000. Christine McCulloch bought the copy of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone for her son Adam in the 1990s. She said she paid about £10 for the copy from a bookshop in Stratford-upon-Avon in 1997 and had no idea the same book would be worth thousands of pounds, 30 years later.

A rare first edition of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, bought for £10 in 1997, sold for £36,000 at auction, surprising its owners.

A rare first edition of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, initially bought for £10 in 1997, has been auctioned for £45,000 including the buyer's premium. The book, one of only 500 hardback copies from the original print run,