It is one of only 15 copies of the special edition which were given to competition winners in 2012.
A rare edition of the first Harry Potter book, which survived a house fire, has sold for £15,000 at auction.
Now it has sold at auction, surpassing its estimate of £8,000 - £12,000, Carina hopes to put the money towards her wedding.Carina, 26, a documentary film-maker, won the book in a competition run by publisher Bloomsbury to find the UK's biggest Harry Potter fan."The book was kept hidden away in my childhood bedroom and then in the storage cupboard of my tenement flat in Glasgow," Carina said.
Carina used her school summer holidays to enter the competition with a watercolour portrait of the three main characters and a hand-carved wand.
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