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FIRST HARRY POTTER NOVEL TOPS SECONDHAND BESTSELLER LIST FOR 2007

(Victoria, BC - 27 December 2007)The Boy Wizard's original adventure was in demand from buyers of secondhand books in 2007. JK Rowling's debut novel, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, was the year's bestselling used title at AbeBooks.co.uk – the world's largest online marketplace for secondhand, rare and out-of-print books.

Enid Blyton was AbeBooks.co.uk's bestselling author of the year and Khaled Hosseini's A Thousand Splendid Suns was the bestselling signed book. The most expensive book sold through AbeBooks was a major theological work from 1497 priced at £12,575.

All lists found here – http://www.abebooks.co.uk/docs/Community/Featured/2007-year-review.shtml

Bestselling secondhand books on AbeBooks.co.uk

1. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by JK Rowling
2. Atonement by Ian McEwan
3. A Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells - Book 1: The Eastern Fells by Alfred Wainwright
4. Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
5. Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson

Bestselling books overall (new & secondhand combined) on AbeBooks.co.uk

1. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by JK Rowling
2. Voice of the Gods by Trudi Canavan
3. Safe Harbor by Christine Feehan
4. When the Feast is Finished by Brian Aldiss
5. A Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells - Book 1: The Eastern Fells by Alfred Wainwright

Bestselling authors on AbeBooks.co.uk

1. Enid Blyton
2. Terry Pratchett
3. William Shakespeare
4. Agatha Christie
5. PG Wodehouse

Bestselling signed books on AbeBooks.co.uk

1. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
2. Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill
3. On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
4. The Highfield Mole by Roderick Gordon and Brian Williams
5. The Children of Hurin by JRR Tolkien (edited by Christopher Tolkien, illustrated by Alan Lee)

Most expensive books sold on AbeBooks

1. Supplementum summae Pisanellae by Nikolaus Osimo - £12,575
   A beautiful edition of the major theological work of Nicholas de Osimo from 1479. It includes a collection of anti-Semitic church laws. Osimo was a lawyer and theologian, who joined the Franciscans and was appointed prefect of the Holy Land. This is the first known printed edition.
2. The Genera of Diurnal Lepidoptera by Edward Doubleday & John Westwood - £8,445
   A key work, beautifully illustrated, on butterflies and moths from 1852 bound in red half morocco leather over contemporary marbled cloth-covered boards. Doubleday had only completed about a third of the text before his death in 1849 and Westwood finished the work.
3. Navis stultifera a domino Sebastiano Brant primum by Jodocus Badius - £8,081
   A 1497 Latin translation of Brant’s Ship of Fools (Das Narrenschiff) where the vices of the day are pilloried by the German satirist – it includes woodcuts by a young Albrecht Dürer. Jakob Lochers was the translator while Jodocus Badius, an early publishing pioneer, edited the work.
4. Ars Magna Lucis et Umbrae in X Libros Digesta by Athanasius Kircher - £7,249
   Bound in full recent calf, this 1671 enlarged edition includes an early description of the recently invented magic lantern, an early form of projector. It also includes the first printed pictures of Saturn and Jupiter. Kircher addresses the issues of heavenly bodies and timekeeping.
5. The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt and Nubia by David Roberts - £6,556
   First quarto edition from 1855-56 of one of the greatest lithographic works ever printed. Roberts was the first Westerner to enter many sacred mosques and monuments in the Middle East. There are detailed drawings, six pictorial title pages, and two engraved maps. Six volumes

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