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Girl With A Pearl Earring - FIRST STATE DW
by Tracy Chevalier
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0002258900
- ISBN 13
- 9780002258906
- Seller
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Hastings, United Kingdom
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About This Item
UK: Harper Collins, 1999. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Signed by Author. Near Fine copy of scarce first edition first impression with misspelling error on rear dustwrapper of 'earing'. SIGNED and DATED (2008) by Tracy Chevalier to title page. A near fine copy, not price clipped and no blemishes. 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
Synopsis
A sumptuous new look for Tracy Chevalier's bestselling novel. Griet, the young daughter of a tilemaker in seventeeth century Holland, obtains her first job, as a servant in Vermeer's household. Tracy Chevalier shows us, through Griet's eyes, the complicated family, the society of the small town of Delft, and life with an obsessive genius. Griet loves being drawn into his artistic life, and leaving her former drudgery, but the cost to her own survival may be high.
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- Bookseller
- Tarquin Rees Modern Firsts
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- P385
- Title
- Girl With A Pearl Earring - FIRST STATE DW
- Author
- Tracy Chevalier
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 0002258900
- ISBN 13
- 9780002258906
- Publisher
- Harper Collins
- Place of Publication
- UK
- Date Published
- 1999
- Bookseller catalogs
- Signed First Editions; Modern Firsts;
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