By Library Communications on Mar 5, 2018
UBC Library has now finished a Harry Potter collection of strange initial editions with a new merger of a U.K. initial edition, initial copy of Harry Potter and a Philosopher’s Stone.
The library’s Rare Books and Special Collections dialect has been building a collection of initial book Harry Potter books given open 2015 as partial of a Arkley Collection of Early Historical Children’s Literature, that is focused on renouned works.
“As a many renouned children’s novel array in several generations, with tellurian impact equaling Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Harry Potter is an critical array in a children’s novel canon,” says Chelsea Shriver, UBC Rare Books and Special Collections Librarian.
Although a initial Harry Potter book was published usually over 20 years ago, a U.K. initial edition, initial copy is singular and formidable to obtain. The strange imitation run was usually 500 copies, 300 of that went directly into libraries and were never dictated for sale. The latest book in a collection was purchased with income from a array of library collections supports including endowments and donations from a 2017 crowdfunding campaign.
“We are unapproachable to join a ranks of institutions such as Princeton, Yale, a British Library, and Oxford’s Bodleian Libraries in bringing this really wanting book to UBC,” says Katherine Kalsbeek Head of Rare Books and Special Collections. “Collecting and preserving a Harry Potter array will safeguard that wanting initial and special editions of these works can be scrupulously cared for and done permitted for destiny generations.”
UBC Library’s Rare Books and Special Collections offers weekly drop-in tours each Wednesday, for students, faculty, and a ubiquitous open to come in and see a collections in person.
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