Video shared by the auction house shows the bidding in progress. Other copies from the same run have also sold for six figures, with two copies recently fetching more than $138,000. ![]() ![]() The book was a first-edition hardcover copy of Potter and one of only 500 in the world, the auction house said. In other words, it's the most valuable book that you might've actually been able to buy when it first came out. "Not only is it the most expensive Harry Potter book ever sold, it's the most expensive commercially published 20th-century work of fiction ever sold, " Joe Maddalena, executive vice president of Heritage Auctions, said in a statement on Thursday. ![]() Rowling classic just sold for US$471,000 at auction, in what was reportedly a world record-setting sale.
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