Tracy Chevalier — Girl with a Pearl Earring

New York, Dutton, 2000. Cloth. A lovely signed first American edition of this historical novel from American-British writer Tracy Chevalier. In the publisher's original quarter cloth binding with paper boards.First published in the UK by HarperCollins in 1999, this is the first American edition.Flat signed by the author to the title page. Complete with the original unclipped dust wrapper.Set in seventeenth-century Delft, Holland, this historical novel was inspired by local painter Johannes Vermeer's piece Girl with a Pearl Earring. Chevalier presents a fictional account of Vermeer, the model and the painting. Tracy Chevalier (1962-) is known for richly researched historical fiction that foregrounds women"s interior lives. This novel became her best-known work, inspiring both a film adaptation and renewed public interest in Vermeer"s enigmatic painting. In the publisher's original quarter cloth binding with paper boards. Externally, lovely, with only the slightest trace of shelf wear to extremities. Dust wrapper, excellent, with the slightest rubbing to extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Signed by the author to the title page. Fine . Ill.: None. Fine/Fine.