The Publishing Sensation of 2008?
The First Edition of this book was released as a very special edition hand bound and handcrafted book. Only 7 copies were created, 6 were given to J.K. Rowling's personal friends. Huge sums were bid at open auction to buy the ultimate collectors edition. Amazon surprisingly paid an unbelievable sum of £1.95m (almost $4million!) at auction to own the book.
Now the general public will be able to own their own copy at a much more realistic price when the book is released for sale on the 8th December, just in time for all those christmas presents. But will you be buying the standard edition, or the collectors edition?
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Have you read "The Tales Of Beedle The Bard" Yet?
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Page Contents
- Have you read "The Tales Of Beedle The Bard" Yet?
- The Harry Potter Prequel?
- The Tales Of Beedle The Bard
- Beedle The Bard Auction Video
- Amazon Special Edition
- What's so special?
- Special Limited Number Collectors Edition
- Standard Edition
- UK Standard Edition
- J.K. Rowling Reads From The Tales Of Beedle The Bard
- The Wizard and the Hopping Pot
- The Fountain of Fair Fortune
- The Warlock's Hairy Heart
- Babbitty Rabbitty and her Cackling Stump
- The Tale of the Three Brothers
- Professor Dumbledore's Commentary
- The Tales of Beedle The Bard Readers Comments & Reviews
- J.K. Rowling being interviewed about The Tales Of Beedle The Bard
- Which was your favorite story?
- The Tales of Beedle The Bard on Ebay
- Looking For The Harry Potter Prequel?
- Official Harry Potter Biography!
- Harry Potter News
Not Another Harry Potter Book!
For the few of you out there not completely familiar with the Harry Potter Phenomena, this isn't actually a sequel or even prequel to the tales and adventures of Harry Potter and Hogwarts.This book was mentioned in the final book of the Harry Potter series - The Deathly Hallows - as a collection of wizarding tales as common to wizarding families as the tales of the Brothers Grimm are to children in muggle families.
The Tales Of Beedle The Bard
The Most Expensive Modern Book Ever?
In December 2007, Southeby's, one of the UK's most prestigious auction houses, sold the only publicly available copies of The Tales Of Beedle The Bard for the incredible sum of £1.95million, thats about 4million dollars!Only 7 copies of the ultimate in collectors editions were created. Handwritten and illustrated by J.K. Rowling 6 copies were given to personal friends, with the 7th being auctioned for charity.
Amazon Special Edition
Amazon paid just under £2million ($4million) for the book at auction. Sales from the limited edition collectors print run of 100,000 at £50 ($100)a copy, will bring a total of £5million ($10million). Not a bad investment! What's so special?
The Collector's Edition is an exclusive reproduction of J.K. Rowling's handwritten introduction, as well as 10 additional illustrations not found in the Standard Edition or the original.Presented in its own case disguised as a wizarding textbook as could be found in any magical library. Inside this nestles a velvet bag embroidered with the signature of J.K. Rowling, in which sits the crafted masterpeice with metal embossed skull, metal corner protectors, and clasp with imitation gems and a green ribbon placekeeper.
Now imagine the joy of any Harry Potter fan opening this up on christmas day!
Special Limited Number Collectors Edition
Only 100,000 of these will be published.
The Tales of Beedle the Bard, Collector's Edition (Offered Exclusively by Amazon)
Amazon Price: (as of 11/10/2009)
With only a limited print run of 100,000 this edition is likely to sell out well before the release date. It would make an excellent gift for any Harry Potter fans & collectors, and just in time for xmas too!
Fans in the UK can buy it direct from Amazon UK
Standard Edition
The Tales of Beedle the Bard, Standard Edition
Amazon Price: $9.35 (as of 11/10/2009)
This includes the same 5 stories and copies of the illustrations in the original edition, as well as a commentary on each tale by none other than Professor Albus Dumbledore
UK Standard Edition
The same motif from the tale of Babbitty Rabbitty illustrates the cover of this book as that of the american edition. Though the design is different as it is produced by a different publisher for the UK market it may well be a great gift for the American Harry Potter fan to go with the Collectors Edition.
Which Edition Do You Want?
Which edition of The Tales of Beedle The Bard do you want?
J.K. Rowling Reads From The Tales Of Beedle The Bard
The Wizard and the Hopping Pot
A wonderful tale of a young wizard and a magical one footed pot.The young wizard inherited the pot from his father and ... well I'm not going to spoil it, but the story is like a cross between an aesops fable and a discworld novel featuring The Luggage, with a healthy dose of Rowling magic.
The Collectors Edition of The Tales of Beedle The Bard
The Fountain of Fair Fortune
A true fairy tale of a magical fountain in an enchanted and enclosed garden and that of the quest and friendship of 3 witches and a knight who wish to bathe in it's waters and gain the fair fortune legends tell of which bless those that bathe in its waters. Only one person may enter the garden and bathe in the fountain and this is a great tale of friendship. 
The US Edition of The Tales of Beedle The Bard
The Warlock's Hairy Heart
This dark tale will chill you to the bone with a simple tale of a warlock using dark arts that becomes deluded by his solitude and the story becomes very strange and twisted when he decides to seek a wife.This story shows JK Rowling at her darkest and would have the Brothers Grimm nodding in respect for such bone chilling storytelling.
The UK Edition of The Tales of Beedle The Bard
Babbitty Rabbitty and her Cackling Stump
An old story of wicked kings and the persecution of magic in his land. A charlatan wizard seeks help from a local witch to impress the king with a display of magic. Wrongs are righted in true Rowling style with immense attention to detail and events.Reminiscent of the Emperor Wears No Clothes, but with an amazing amount of depth for such a short tale.
The Collectors Edition
The Tale of the Three Brothers
The Tale of the Three Brothers is the last in this book but by no means is it the least.Harry Potter fans will be familiar with this story as the one in the Deathly Hallows, and tells the tale of the three brothers who cheat death.
Professor Dumbledore's Commentary
Professor Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore's notes presented in the standard edition were found "among the many papers which Dumbledore left in his will to the Hogwarts Archives".The wizard's observations and notes illustrate the standard edition of The Tales of Beedle The Bard, allowing modern readers to put the tales in context with the 16th century society, where Beedle was preaching love and harmony with the muggles in the time of the witch-hunts and persecution that drove the wizarding community into hiding.
The Tales of Beedle The Bard Readers Comments & Reviews
All comments and reviews will be approved before publishing, this usually will be done within 24houurs. Please do not include spoilers.
What did you think of the book?
Fetching blurbs now... please stand byIt Was Great!
serena says:
it was a great book i loved it!
especially the tale of the three brothers!
Posted February 08, 2009
Tori says:
Absolutely amazing! I love the Harry Potter books and it just put the topping on the cake. I love the book and can't wait for the last two harry potter movies.
Posted January 05, 2009
Amanda Abstract says:
The collector's edition is great!!! Nicely made and perfect for a collector. The best Christmas present I received.
Posted December 29, 2008
hope Wiedemann curtis says:
I loved the "hard back" non "collector" for $7.00 I would love Santa to surprise me with the collector
Posted December 18, 2008
wizgirl says:
i wanna have itttttttttttttttttttt......
Posted December 18, 2008
Disappointed
J.K. Rowling being interviewed about The Tales Of Beedle The Bard
Children's High Level Group
Publisher of The Tales of Beedle The Bard
The book is being printed and distributed By Amazon, Bloomsbury (UK) and Scholastic (US), though the Publisher is actually the charity set up by J.K. Rowling and Baroness Emma Nicholson of Winterbourne MEP, The Children's High Level Group.The aims of the charity are working together to ensure that UN minimum standards for the care of children are implemented across the world and to enable children in care across the world to enjoy a safe and happy future.
The countries that they currently work in are Romania, Moldova, Armenia and Georgia and the Czech Republic.
For more information about the work of The Children's High Level Group please visit their website - www.chlg.org
Which was your favorite story?
Got any Comments?
Feel free to leave general comments here.
Farah Haque wrote
I really liked this book very much. an interesting prequel after the Harry Potter series.The tale of three brothers was excellent. Hope J.K.Rowling writes more.
Posted March 15, 2009
AdrianaL wrote...
As a lover of short stories and J.K. Rowling, I definately have to get this book. I'll be featuring your lense on my Harry Potter Fan Club lense ^.^ Great job!
Posted February 02, 2009
Treasures-By-Brenda wrote...
I have just created a SquidLit book review of The Tales of Beedle the Bard and will be lensrolling your information-packed lens to it once I can.
Brenda
Posted January 05, 2009
MindGuru wrote...
I love the format of your lens--the splashy photo next to the informative text, each focussing in on a feature of the story. Great work--I enjoy the Potter series, though I don't take it seriously. 5 *'s
Posted December 28, 2008
The Tales of Beedle The Bard on Ebay
After the publishing you will expect to see many copies of the Collectors edition on ebay. Currently though there are a number of people selling the Southeby's Auction Catalogue.
Also, there are people attempting to sell copies as a pre-order. You can expectmany more of these when the collectors edition sells out, currently one person has been selling a number of copies for $125 on a Buy-It-Now, even more amazingly, people have been buying it!
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- The Harry Potter Prequel
- The Adventures of Beedle The Bard
- The Adventures of Beetle and the Bard
Looking For The Harry Potter Prequel?
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Official Harry Potter Biography!
With Foreword by JK Rowling
Harry, A History: The True Story of a Boy Wizard, His Fans, and Life Inside the Harry Potter Phenomenon
Amazon Price: $10.88 (as of 11/10/2009)
List Price: $16.00
No real fan of Hogwarts, Potter or Rowling will want to be without this book!
This is a must for any Harry Potter fan wanting to know more about there hero.
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Harry Potter News
News from the world of Harry Potter & JK Rowling
- Rowling wins book copyright claim
- Unofficial Harry Potter encyclopaedia banned from publication.
- Beedle Raises £4million For Charity
- The book is set to become the best selling book of 2008.
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