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Originally Posted by pdurrant
There was a 1914 book of that name, but looking at google n-grams it does seem that Philosopher's Stone was used widely even in the US. A very poor decision to change it by the US publisher.
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We had this discussion last year, too:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=237444
And here I'll only point out that the wild success of the book in the US suggests it was very good decision by the US publisher, who perhaps had some skill in knowing what sort of words and meter work best in American book titles.