Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone Translation Collection
A Complete First Edition Collection. All First State Cover Art, Fine or Near Fine Condition
- Afrikaans (Africa)
- Albanian (Albania)
- Original Arabic (Egypt)
- Source Orientating Arabic – variant of the original.
- Standardising Arabic – variant of the original.
- Armenian (Armenia)
- Asturian (Spain)
- Azerbaijani (Azerbaijan)
- Original Basque (Spain) – pre movie font
- New Basque – Variant of the original.
- Belarusian (Belarus)
- Bengali (Bangladesh) – Original Mary GrandPre cover art.
- Bosnian (Bosnia)
- Breton (France)
- Bulgarian (Bulgaria)
- Original Catalan (Spain) – First state, pre movie font, ‘purple wizard’ cover art.
- New Catalan – Variant of the original.
- Valencian – Adaptation of Catalan.
- Simplified Chinese (China)
- Traditional Chinese (Taiwan)
- Original Croatian (Croatia)
- New Croatian – Variant of the original.
- First State Czech (Czech Republic) – Top hat & pre movie font.
- Danish (Denmark) – Pre movie font.
- Dutch (Netherlands) – pre movie font.
- English (England)
- American English (United States)
- English Braille – Transliteration of the original English edition.
- Estonian (Estonia) – Original Mary GrandPre cover art.
- Faroese – (Faroe Islands)
- Filipino – (Philippines)
- Finnish (Finland) – Pre movie font.
- French (France) – Pre movie font.
- Galician (Spain)
- Georgian (Georgia) – Original Mary GrandPre cover art.
- German (Germany) – pre movie font.
- Low German (Germany)
- Ancient Greek (Greece)
- Modern Greek (Greece) – Pre movie font.
- Greenlandic (Greenland)
- Gujarati (India)
- Hawaiian (Hawaii)
- Hebrew (Israel)
- Hindi (India)
- Hungarian (Hungary) – First state, Pre movie font, ‘jurassic park’ cover art.
- First State Icelandic (Iceland) – Pre movie font, ‘Joanna Rowling.’
- Indonesian (Indonesia)
- Irish (Ireland)
- Original Italian (Italy) – pre movie font, ‘no glasses’ first state.
- New Italian – Variant of the original.
- Japanese (Japan) – Pre movie font.
- Kazakh (Kazakhstan)
- Khmer (Cambodia)
- Original Korean (Korea) – Two volumes, original Mary GrandPre cover art.
- New Korean – Second translation.
- Latin (Italy)
- Latvian (Latvia)
- Lithuanian (Lithuania)
- Luxembourgish (Luxembourg)
- Original Macedonian (Macedonia)
- New Macedonian – Second translation.
- Malayalam (India) – Full gold foiling still present to front cover and spine.
- Malaysian (Malaysia) – Original Mary GrandPre cover art.
- Maori (New Zealand)
- Marathi (India)
- Original Mongolian (Mongolia)
- New Mongolian – Second translation.
- Nepali (Nepal)
- Norwegian (Norway)
- Occitan (France)
- Persian (Iran)
- Polish (Poland)
- Brazilian Portuguese (Brazil) – pre movie font.
- European Portuguese (Portugal) – pre movie font.
- Original Romanian (Romania)
- New Romanian – Second translation.
- Original Russian (Russia)
- New Russian – Second translation.
- Scots (Scotland)
- Serbian Cyrillic (Serbia) – Pre movie font.
- Serbian Latin – Transliteration of the original.
- Serbian Montenegrin – Adaptation of the original.
- Sinhala (Sri Lanka)
- Slovak (Slovakia)
- Slovenian (Slovenia)
- Original Spanish – pre movie font.
- Spanish European- Adaptation of the original, pre movie font.
- Spanish Latin – Adaptation of the original.
- Spanish Southern Cone – Adaptation of the original.
- Swedish – Pre movie font.
- Tamil (India)
- Telugu (India)
- Thai (Thailand)
- Tibetan (Tibet)
- Original Turkish (Turkey)
- New Turkish – Second translation.
- Ukrainian – (Ukraine)
- Urdu (Pakistan)
- Vietnamese (Vietnam) – Original Mary GrandPre cover art.
- Welsh (Wales)
- West Frisian (Netherlands)
- Yiddish
This is the first and only complete collection of Harry Potter translations to ever hit the open market. This collection took years to put together and is believed to be one of approximately 10 complete sets in the world.
The 15 highlighted books are what I believe to be the most valuable books to purchase individually. The ‘big6’ books, a term coined by Peter Kenneth ‘the potter collector’ comprises of Asturian, Greenlandic, Gujarati, Macedonian, Malayalam and Nepali. These books along with the first printing, first state Italian (no glasses) are by far the most expensive all worth in the thousands of pounds each.
The next tier down in terms of value would be the 4 books that are exceptionally rare because they are the first state/ first prints, but as a translation, the newer editions are easy to acquire which would suffice for most collectors. These are the first states of Catalan, Czech, Hungarian and Icelandic.
The other 4 books highlighted are also what I believe to be the hardest to find and would still command a price tag of hundreds of pounds each. They are Khmer, original Mongolian, Tibetan, Urdu. Afrikaans and Filipino should also receive honourable mentions.
Other things to note, which serious collectors may care about is the pre movie ‘Harry Potter’ font as opposed to the post movie variation you’ll find for those translations published after the first movie was released. There are only 19 translations that hit this criteria and this collection has them all.
Along with pre-movie font, serious collectors also look for the original cover art for each translation. For example a lot of the time later editions will use the Jonny duddle artwork rather than the original Mary GrandPre artwork. You can be assured that where possible, this collection has the very first variation of artwork available for each translation.
With regards to condition, the majority of these books are in fine condition. When putting this collection together I would only buy books in near perfect condition. A few are near fine with some scuffing and some shelf wear but none have any major issues to be concerned by.
Overall this is a fantastic set, in great condition, carefully put together over a number of years.
