HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS

New York: Scholastic, 2007. First Edition, first issue with the full number line and First American Edition, July 2007. With illustrations throughout by Mary Crandpré 8vo, publisher’s original cloth, in the original pictorial dustjacket. 652, [7] pp. An extremely fine copy, as mint, still in the original state of preservation. FIRST EDITION OF THE SEVENTH HARRY POTTER BOOK in the handsome binding produced for the edition. 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.
The epilogue finds the main characters of the series, 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 audience.