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  Potter book sells for nearly £10,000
Updated 12 February 2002, 21.16
A copy of the first edition of JK Rowling's Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone has been sold for almost £10,000.

It went for more than £9,700 at London auction house Bonham's.

And a set of deluxe editions of all four of the Potter books, signed by author JK Rowling, raised £3,000 for the Leukaemia Research Fund charity.

Rich

Harry Potter has made JK Rowling a rich woman
Rowling is one of the richest women in Britain thanks to her four books on the boy wizard Harry Potter.

And a Potter book of a different kind was also auctioned.

A rare first edition of Beatrix Potter's The Tale of Peter Rabbit went under the hammer for more than £5,000.

The fictional bunny has just had an image makeover to help him appeal to today's children.

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