Harry Potter first edition which was about to be sold for 50p at a car boot sale is expected to fetch £50,000 at auction.The rare book – one of just 500 hardback copies of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone – was found gathering dust on a bookshelf.Charlotte Rumsey, 28, was helping her mum Karen, 59, do a clearout of old books at her home in Blackpool when she came across the JK Rowling classic.
It had been given to them by a family friend in 1999 for Charlotte and her brothers Callum, now 27, and Cameron, now 25, to read.The book was about to be taken to a car boot sale when Charlotte spotted another copy, valued at £13,000, feature on the BBC’s Antiques Roadshow.Charlotte called her mum who checked the book’s production codes and.
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