Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Size: 8vo
Publisher: Harpercollins Publishers, 1999, London
ISBN: 0002258900

[Book #14380]

A very beautiful very scarce first UK edition/first state with the correct dust jacket (containing the spelling error "Pearl Earing" on the back side of the dust jacket) in Fine/Fine condition, SIGNED by author Tracy Chevalier on the title page;

Chevalier transports readers to a bygone time and place in this richly imagined portrait of the young woman who inspired one of Vermeer's most celebrated paintings. "Girl with a Pearl Earring" is the story of 16-year-old Griet, whose life is transformed by her brief encounter with genius, even as she herself is immortalized in canvas and oil.

Basis for the Academy Award nominated movie starring Scarlett Johansson and Colin Firth; Signed by Author