The watercolor cover art for the first edition of “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone” was painted in 1996 by a recent art school graduate from Britain who was working at a bookstore. By John ...

I won’t insult you by compressing it down to the width of this column: click here for the full experience. From the press release: “The front cover of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows features a ...

J.K. Rowling’s 1997 novel “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone” was the beginning of what would become a worldwide phenomenon. Now, the original illustration for the first edition of the book is ...