Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, signed first edition, first issue, full

Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, signed first edition, first issue, full print line, '10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1', in a scarce proof dust-jacket with numerous variations from the final published version [press review by Sunday Times rather than The Bookseller on upper panel; misspelling 'Cliffe Wright' on lower panel; no blue award circle on front; priced £9.99 on inner flap], London: Bloomsbury, 1998. Signed & inscribed by the author on dedication page, 'To Alex, with best wishes, J K Rowling.' Octavo, hardback, publisher's pictorial boards with unclipped proof dust-jacket. Contents very good, clean & bright, some very faint spotting to edges of text-block just encroaching into margins in a few places, very light bumping to extremities of boards, the proof dust-jacket very well-preserved, bold & vibrant, with fold-lines around spine/edges Provenance: Signed for the vendor at Heffers Bookshop, Cambridge, 1998. The vendor's family also have the proof sheet of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone in this sale