ROWLING, J.K. – Doodled Books https://doodledbooks.com Rare Signed & First Edition Books in London Wed, 28 Aug 2024 16:23:47 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://i0.wp.com/doodledbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/cropped-Doodled-Books-favicon-2022.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 ROWLING, J.K. – Doodled Books https://doodledbooks.com 32 32 191136237 Harry Potter AND the Order of the Phoenix By J K Rowling First Edition First Printing https://doodledbooks.com/product/harry-potter-and-the-order-of-the-phoenix-by-j-k-rowling-first-edition-first-printing/ https://doodledbooks.com/product/harry-potter-and-the-order-of-the-phoenix-by-j-k-rowling-first-edition-first-printing/#respond Wed, 28 Apr 2021 16:21:37 +0000 https://doodledbooks.com/?post_type=product&p=2550 Brilliant fifth book in the series.  This book is in fine/fine condition and is a first edition first printing.

Book Description

Harry Potter is due to start his fifth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. He is desperate to get back to school and find out why his friends Ron and Hermione have been so secretive all summer. However, what Harry is about to discover in his new year at Hogwarts will turn his world upside down…This is a gripping and electrifying new novel, full of suspense, secrets, and – of course – magic, from the incomparable J.K. Rowling.

Product Details:

  • First Edition First Printing
  • Hardcover: 766 pages
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (21 Jun 2003)
  • Language English
  • ISBN: 0747551006
  • Product Dimensions: 5.3 x 8.1 inches
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Based on an original new story by J.K. Rowling, John Tiffany and Jack Thorne, a new play by Jack Thorne, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is the eighth story in the Harry Potter series and the first official Harry Potter story to be presented on stage. The play will receive its world premiere in London’s West End on 30th July 2016.

It was always difficult being Harry Potter and it isn’t much easier now that he is an overworked employee of the Ministry of Magic, a husband, and father of three school-age children.

While Harry grapples with a past that refuses to stay where it belongs, his youngest son Albus must struggle with the weight of a family legacy he never wanted. As past and present fuse ominously, both father and son learn the uncomfortable truth: sometimes, darkness comes from unexpected places.

Product details

  • First Edition First Printing
  • Publisher : Little, Brown; 1st edition (31 July 2016)
  • Language : English
  • Hardcover : 352 pages
  • ISBN-10 : 0751565350
  • ISBN-13 : 978-0751565355
  • Dimensions : 16.4 x 3.2 x 23.9 cm

 

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Book Review

J.K. Rowling delivers another fantastic tale which will have the readers gasping for more, capturing the characters perfectly and continuing a tale which readers will enjoy over and over again. —Ziggy Morbi

Book Description

“Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” is J.K. Rowling’s sixth book in the Harry Potter series. Join Harry as he uncovers dark secrets about Voldemort’s past. This first edition, first printing adult version is a collector’s gem.

Product Details:

 

  • Hardcover: 607 pages
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury (16 Jul 2005)
  • ASIN: 074758110X
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Book Review

J.K. Rowling delivers another fantastic tale which will have the readers gasping for more, capturing the characters perfectly and continuing a tale which readers will enjoy over and over again. –Ziggy Morbi

Book Description
This will be the BEST book yet!

Product Details:

  • First Edition First Printing
  • Hardcover
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing (16 Jul 2005)
  • ISBN: 0747581088
  • Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.7 x 2.2 inches
]]> https://doodledbooks.com/product/harry-potter-and-the-half-blood-princeby-j-k-rowling-first-edition-first-printing/feed/ 0 2537 Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them By J K Rowling First Edition First Printing https://doodledbooks.com/product/fantastic-beasts-and-where-to-find-them-by-j-k-rowling-rare-first-edition-first-printing/ https://doodledbooks.com/product/fantastic-beasts-and-where-to-find-them-by-j-k-rowling-rare-first-edition-first-printing/#respond Wed, 28 Apr 2021 10:20:07 +0000 https://doodledbooks.com/?post_type=product&p=2531 Beautiful first edition, first printing in fine condition of the wonderful Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them by J.K. Rowling.

J.K. Rowling is the author of the much-loved series of seven Harry Potter novels, originally published between 1997 and 2007. Along with the three companion books written for charity, the series has sold over 500 million copies, been translated into over 80 languages, and made into eight blockbuster films.

Originally written by J.K. Rowling in aid of Comic Relief as a Hogwarts textbook, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them became the inspiration behind a new and original five-film series for Warner Bros., the first of which was released in 2016. The second film in the series, Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, was released in November 2018.

J.K. Rowling has collaborated with playwright Jack Thorne and director John Tiffany on a stage play, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, which opened in London’s West End in 2016 and on Broadway in 2018, and will have further worldwide openings in 2019.

J.K. Rowling also writes the Cormoran Strike crime novels, under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. The fourth in this series was published in autumn 2018. The Strike books have been adapted for television for BBC and HBO television by Brontë Film & Television. J.K. Rowling is also the author of The Casual Vacancy, a standalone novel for adults, published in 2012.

From the Back Cover

When Magizoologist Newt Scamander arrives in New York, he intends his stay to be just a brief stopover. However, when his magical case is misplaced and some of Newt’s fantastic beasts escape, it spells trouble for everyone…

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them marks the screenwriting debut of J.K. Rowling, author of the beloved and internationally bestselling Harry Potter books. Featuring a cast of remarkable characters, this is epic, adventure-packed storytelling at its very best.

Whether an existing fan or new to the wizarding world, this is a perfect addition to any reader’s bookshelf.

Book Description

J.K. Rowling’s screenwriting debut is captured in this exciting hardcover edition of the Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them screenplay.

Product details

  • First Edition First Printing
  • Hardcover: 304 pages
  • Publisher: Little, Brown; 01 edition (16 Nov. 2016)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 9781408708989
  • ISBN-13: 978-1408708989
  • ASIN: 1408708981
  • Product Dimensions: 14.3 x 2.9 x 21.8 cm
]]> https://doodledbooks.com/product/fantastic-beasts-and-where-to-find-them-by-j-k-rowling-rare-first-edition-first-printing/feed/ 0 2531 Harry Potter J K Rowling Royal Mail Rare Collectors Stamps https://doodledbooks.com/product/harry-potter-j-k-rowling-royal-mail-collectors-stamps-rare/ https://doodledbooks.com/product/harry-potter-j-k-rowling-royal-mail-collectors-stamps-rare/#respond Wed, 28 Apr 2021 09:47:00 +0000 https://doodledbooks.com/?post_type=product&p=2527 He’s conquered the bestseller lists for a decade – now Harry Potter is appearing on a Presentation Pack by Royal Mail. These stamps fastly sold out in Post Offices on 17th July 2007 and we only have a Limited number in stock!

If you decide to buy a pack you will discover how the Harry Potter phenomenon became a worldwide success. Inside the fully illustrated pack Jim Davies tells the story of how the boy wizard went onto conquer the world of children’s literature.

The stamps inside the pack are of:

1. The seven Harry Potter books.

2. The crests of Hogwarts and its four houses – Gryffindor, Slytherin, Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff.

An amazing collectors item that will only go up in value!

]]> https://doodledbooks.com/product/harry-potter-j-k-rowling-royal-mail-collectors-stamps-rare/feed/ 0 2527 Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone Illustrated Edition By J K Rowling First Printing https://doodledbooks.com/product/harry-potter-and-the-philosophers-stone-illustrated-edition-by-j-k-rowling-first-printing/ https://doodledbooks.com/product/harry-potter-and-the-philosophers-stone-illustrated-edition-by-j-k-rowling-first-printing/#respond Wed, 28 Apr 2021 09:29:44 +0000 https://doodledbooks.com/?post_type=product&p=2524 The landmark publishing event of 2015 – a full-colour illustrated edition of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone with breathtaking illustration by Jim Kay, winner of the Kate Greenaway medal. This rare book is in mint condition and is a first printing.

From the Back Cover

Prepare to be spellbound by Jim Kay’s dazzling depiction of the wizarding world and much loved characters in this full-colour illustrated hardback edition of the nation’s favourite children’s book – Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. Brimming with rich detail and humour that perfectly complements J.K. Rowling’s timeless classic, Jim Kay’s glorious illustrations will captivate fans and new readers alike.

Biography

J.K. Rowling is best-known as the author of the seven Harry Potter books, which were published between 1997 and 2007. The enduringly popular adventures of Harry, Ron and Hermione have gone on to sell over 500 million copies, be translated into over 80 languages and made into eight blockbuster films.

Alongside the Harry Potter series, J.K. Rowling also wrote three short companion volumes for charity: Quidditch Through the Ages and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, in aid of Comic Relief, and The Tales of Beedle the Bard, in aid of Lumos. The companion books and original series are all available as audiobooks.

In 2016, J.K. Rowling collaborated with playwright Jack Thorne and director John Tiffany to continue Harry’s story in a stage play, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, which opened in London, followed by the USA and Australia.

In the same year, she made her debut as a screenwriter with the film Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. Inspired by the original companion volume, it was the first in a series of new adventures featuring wizarding world magizoologist Newt Scamander. The second, Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, was released in 2018.

Both the screenplays, as well as the script of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, are also available as books.

Fans of Fantastic Beasts and Harry Potter can find out more at www.wizardingworld.com.

J.K. Rowling also writes novels for adults. The Casual Vacancy was published in 2012 and adapted for television in 2015. Under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith, she is the author of the highly acclaimed ‘Strike’ crime series, featuring private detective Cormoran Strike and his partner Robin Ellacott. The first of these, The Cuckoo’s Calling, was published to critical acclaim in 2013, at first without its author’s true identity being known. The Silkworm followed in 2014, Career of Evil in 2015 and Lethal White in 2018. All four books have been adapted for television by the BBC and HBO. The fifth book, Troubled Blood, is now out and was also an instant bestseller.

J.K. Rowling’s 2008 Harvard Commencement speech was published in 2015 as an illustrated book, Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination, sold in aid of Lumos and university-wide financial aid at Harvard.

In 2020, J.K. Rowling released in free online instalments, The Ickabog, an original fairy tale, which she wrote over ten years ago as a bedtime story for her younger children. She decided to share the personal family favourite to help entertain children, parents and carers confined at home during the Covid-19 lockdown.

The story is now published as a book (hardback, ebook and audio) in the English language, and is translated into 26 languages, each edition with its own unique illustrations by children. J.K. Rowling is donating her royalties from The Ickabog to her charitable trust, The Volant Charitable Trust, to assist vulnerable groups who have been particularly impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic in the UK and internationally.

As well as receiving an OBE and Companion of Honour for services to children’s literature, J.K. Rowling has received many other awards and honours, including France’s Legion d’Honneur, Spain’s Prince of Asturias Award and Denmark’s Hans Christian Andersen Award.

Product details

  • First Edition First Printing
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Children’s Books; 1st edition (6 Oct. 2015)
  • Language : English
  • Hardcover : 256 pages
  • ISBN-10 : 1408845644
  • ISBN-13 : 978-1408845646
  • Reading age : 9 – 11 years
  • Dimensions : 23.5 x 2.7 x 27.3 cm
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]]> https://doodledbooks.com/product/royal-mail-harry-potter-by-j-k-rowling-postcard-set-2007/feed/ 0 2491 Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone BY J.K. Rowling Rare Cast Signed First Edition https://doodledbooks.com/product/harry-potter-and-the-philosophers-stone-by-j-k-rowling-rare-cast-signed-first-edition/ https://doodledbooks.com/product/harry-potter-and-the-philosophers-stone-by-j-k-rowling-rare-cast-signed-first-edition/#respond Thu, 01 Apr 2021 15:27:53 +0000 https://doodledbooks.com/?post_type=product&p=2483 Beautiful cast signed Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. The signatures were acquired on the set of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. You will see some very famous young signatures on this book such as Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint and Robert Pattinson.

Harry Potter is an ordinary boy who lives in a cupboard under the stairs at his Aunt Petunia and Uncle Vernon’s house, which he thinks is normal for someone like him who’s parents have been killed in a ‘car crash’. He is bullied by them and his fat, spoilt cousin Dudley, and lives a very unremarkable life with only the odd hiccup (like his hair growing back overnight!) to cause him much to think about. That is until an owl turns up with a letter addressed to Harry and all hell breaks loose! He is literally rescued by a world where nothing is as it seems and magic lessons are the order of the day. Read and find out how Harry discovers his true heritage at Hogwarts School of Wizardry and Witchcraft, the reason behind his parents mysterious death, who is out to kill him, and how he uncovers the most amazing secret of all time, the fabled Philosopher’s Stone! This is Jo’s first book and she has already written seven outlines for Harry’s further adventures at Hogwarts. She lives in Edinburgh.

About the Author

Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone was J.K. Rowling’s first novel, followed by Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, as well as three books written for charity and inspired by the Harry Potter novels: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Quidditch Through the Ages and The Tales of Beedle the Bard. The Harry Potter novels have now sold over 400 million copies worldwide and been translated into 70 languages. J.K. Rowling has generated huge popular appeal for her books across the generations in an unprecedented fashion: she was the first children’s author to be voted the BA Author of the Year, and also to win the British Book Awards Author of the Year. J.K. Rowling lives with her family in Edinburgh.

 

Product details

  • First Edition Thirty Fifth Printing
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC; Classic ed edition (26 Jun. 1997)
  • Language : English
  • Hardcover : 223 pages
  • ISBN-10 : 0747532699
  • ISBN-13 : 978-0747532699

 

]]> https://doodledbooks.com/product/harry-potter-and-the-philosophers-stone-by-j-k-rowling-rare-cast-signed-first-edition/feed/ 0 2483 The Tales of Beedle the Bard By J K Rowling First Edition First Printing https://doodledbooks.com/product/the-tales-of-beedle-the-bard-by-j-k-rowling-first-edition-first-printing/ https://doodledbooks.com/product/the-tales-of-beedle-the-bard-by-j-k-rowling-first-edition-first-printing/#respond Thu, 01 Apr 2021 11:19:41 +0000 https://doodledbooks.com/?post_type=product&p=2480 The Tales of Beedle the Bard is published in aid of the Lumos www.wearelumos.org, an international children’s charity (registered charity number 1112575) founded in 2005 by J.K Rowling.

Lumos is dedicated ending the institutionalisation of children, a harmful practice that effects the lives of up to eight million disadvantaged children around the world who live in institutions and orphanages, many placed there as a result of poverty, disability, disease, discrimination and conflict; very few are orphans. Lumos works to reunite children with their families, promote family-based care alternatives and help authorities to reform their systems and close down institutions and orphanages.

Review

‘The stories are simple, original, diverse, witty and wise … a book for families to share … a storytelling treat’ — Books for Keeps, No 175, March 2009

`A moralist, a magician and a great liberal, Beedle is to the wizarding world what Hans Christian Anderson is to muggles (non-magical people). Refreshingly original … and surprisingly satisfying. The Tales of Beedle the Bard contains all the playful humour and down-to-earth detail that makes her wizarding world so seductive’ — Sunday Times

`A new JK Rowling is always a delight for her millions of fans and this charming collection of fairytales, her first new book since Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows, lives up to expectation. The five enchanting tales told with the author’s confident mixture of wit and wariness tell lessons for both children and parents alike … This magic mixture combines to make an altogether delightful gift for young readers and for older folk who sometimes read to them’ — Sunday Express

`Rowling is herself responsible for the illustrations which are, in their spindly way, charming’ — The Observer

`Short but sweet … think of it as an after-dinner mint, a little treat for those who’ve been with J.K. Rowling for the long haul’ — DeathRay, Feb/March 2009

`This slightly wistful collection of five original fairy tales certainly deserves to become a Christmas bestseller. As a wordsmith Rowling is always good, writing clear, uncluttered prose … excellent at carrying a story forward. She is also funny, able to make not just her dialogue but also her descriptive passages interesting’ — The Independent

`Wonderfully concise, authentic-feeling cautionary yarns’
— SFX Magazine, February 2009

Review

`This slightly wistful collection of five original fairy tales certainly deserves to become a Christmas bestseller. As a wordsmith Rowling is always good, writing clear, uncluttered prose … excellent at carrying a story forward. She is also funny, able to make not just her dialogue but also her descriptive passages interesting’

Review

`A moralist, a magician and a great liberal, Beedle is to the wizarding world what Hans Christian Anderson is to muggles (non-magical people). Refreshingly original … and surprisingly satisfying. The Tales of Beedle the Bard contains all the playful humour and down-to-earth detail that makes her wizarding world so seductive’

Review

`Rowling is herself responsible for the illustrations which are, in their spindly way, charming’

Book Description

`Short but sweet … think of it as an after-dinner mint, a little treat for those who’ve been with J.K. Rowling for the long haul’

About the Author

Since the publication of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone in 1997, the Harry Potter novels have sold 400 million copies worldwide and have been translated into 65 languages. J. K. Rowling has generated huge popular appeal for her books across the generations in an unprecedented fashion: she was the first children’s author to be voted the BA Author of the Year, and also to win the British Book Awards Author of the Year. J. K. Rowling lives with her family in Edinburgh.

Product details

  • First Edition First Printing
  • Hardcover: 128 pages
  • Publisher: Children’s High Level Group; First Edition edition (4 Dec. 2008)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0747599874
  • ISBN-13: 978-0747599876
  • Product Dimensions: 17.8 x 1.2 x 12.5 cm
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