Exeter, University of Exeter, 1998 and 2001. Contributions by "Joanne Rowling" to the magazine of Exeter's Classics and Ancient History Department. The first (1998) is a recounting of her time at Exeter and her escape from the German department into the Classics department and the bemused tolerance on the part of her professors there, one of whom was the model for the character of Professor Binns, Hogwarts' History of Magic teacher. Two-plus pages, plus a brief biographical statement boasting that her first book, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, published the previous year, had sold 30,004 copies (the series is currently estimated to have sold over 400 million copies). The second issue, three years later, has two pages of text presenting Rowling with an honorary degree and a two page response by Rowling in which she recounts lessons learned since her own graduation and urges that "being privileged people, it becomes us to set off into the world with the intention of improving it, wherever we can." The first issue is misbound, a production error: several pages repeated; several not relevant pages missing; the Rowling article perfectly intact; and the outward presentation fine, in stapled wrappers. The second issue is fine in stapled wrappers. One of her few appearances in print outside of the Harry Potter series; both pieces are interesting, revealing essays, shedding light on her and her writing long before her fame and success.   [#027265] SOLD

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