This image supplied by Scholastic shows the cover of the U.S. edition of the highly anticipated "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," J.K. Rowling's seventh and final Harry Potter book due in stores just after midnight on July 21, 2007.

Designed by illustrator Mary GrandPre, the jacket artwork for the seventh, also the final Harry Potter book, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," has been released, U.S. publisher Scholastic announced Wednesday.

Mary Grandpre is also the illustrator of all six previous U.S. editions for Harry Potter. In the cover of the final, Harry outstretches his arm against a background of red and gold. The cover is a wraparound and, when opened, features an image of Voldemort's glowing red eyes peering out from beneath his hood.

"The structures around Harry show evident destruction and in the shadows behind him, we see outlines of other people," David Saylor, Scholastic's art director, said in a statement.

The book will be released at one minute past midnight on July 21 and sales are expected to eclipse the record-breaking sales achieved by the last volume, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, in July 2005.

"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" is expected to cost 35.34 U.S. dollars at full price and pre-orders -- at a 50 percent discount -- already top the Amazon bestseller chart. In December, before JK Rowling had even finished writing the book, Amazon took 200,000 orders in two days.

The cover for the children's edition released by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, Rowling's British publisher, shows an adult-looking Harry, Hermione and Ron. The adult edition has a photograph of a locket bearing a serpentine "S" -- believed to be the "horcrux" in which Lord Voldemort keeps a fragment of his soul.

Editor: Donald