HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS

First Edition, Deluxe first issue with the full number line and "Deluxe Edition, July 2007" on copyright page. With illustrations throughout by Mary Crandpré, including a colour frontispiece specifically for the Deluxe issue. Large 8vo, in the publisher's original harlequin black cloth lettered on the spine in red and with colour pictorial endpapers, in the original deluxe issue dustjacket and slipcase. xi, 759, [42] pp. An extremely fine copy, as mint, still in fully original state of preservation.

Edizione: special deluxe issue of the seventh and final harry potter book in the handsome binding, jacket, and slipcase made for the edition. mary crandpré artwork for the slipcase, jacket, endpapers, and frontispiece were produced using pastels on toned print-making paper. following the epilogue is a 42 page showcase of full-page illustrations. <br> throughout the six previous novels in the series, the main character, harry potter, has struggled with the difficulties of adolescence along with being famous as the only person ever to survive the killing curse. the curse was cast by tom riddle, better known as lord voldemort, a powerful evil wizard who murdered harry's parents and attempted to kill harry as a baby, due to a prophecy which claimed harry would be able to stop him.<br> deathly hollows is by head and shoulders the most complex and adult entry in the series. in fact, the epilogue finds the main characters, now grown and married, seeing their own children off to hogwarts. one of the unusual things about the harry potter series, quite unlike perpetual teenagers such as nancy drew and the hardy boys, was that the characters aged and developed as the stories came out, at roughly the exact rate as their original devoted audience.