NMLP P-012503 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

J. K. Rowling · Bloomsbury (London) · 1999

UK Bloomsbury is the true first, ahead of the US Scholastic edition (also 1999). The decisive first-state points are the 'Joanne Rowling' copyright credit, the page 7 dropped line, and the complete 10-to-1 number line. Bibliographer Philip Errington records about 5,150 first-impression copies, of which roughly 2,500 are first state.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-012503 for "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" by J. K. Rowling (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-012503, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).