Waiting for Godot

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No: HPFGUIDX 117697


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "potioncat" <willsonkmom at m...>
wrote:
> 
> I was checking over at the Lexicon to find out when each of the HP 
> books was first published.  I found that Chamber of Secrets and 
> Prisoner of Azkaban both came out in 1999.  Not believing it, I took 
> a low tech approach and looked in my own books.  Sure enough, two 
> books came out in the same year!
> 
> I can't imagine having a book come out before having sufficient time 
> to discuss every punctuation mark in the previous book!  Was anyone 
> around back then and did these discussion sites exist?
> 
> Potioncat hoping this is canon and not OT. (Yes, it must be, 1999 
> appears in the book, whew, that was close....)

Ah, it's time for a history lesson!  :)

Actually, it was Prisoner of Azkaban that was the first one to be
published simultaneously by Bloomsbury and Scholastic.  Chamber of
Secrets was published earlier in Great Britain than it was here in the
States.

Checking my Bloomsbury CoS paperback, it says:

First Published in Great Britain in 1998

also:
Copyright (c) Text J.K.Rowling 1998
Copyright (c) Cover illustration Cliff Wright 1997

So that spreads things out a bit. Incidentally, Philosopher's Stone
has both text and cover illustration (c) 1997.

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