Tracy Chevalier — Girl with a Pearl Earring
London, HarperCollins [Harper Collins], 1999 . First edition. Cloth. A signed first edition of Tracy Chevailer's popular novel, a fictional account of the context in which Vermeer's 'Girl with a Pearl Earring' was produced. The first edition, first impression, in the publisher's original price unclipped second state dust wrapper, with 'Earring' correctly spelled to the rear wrap.Flat signed by Chevalier to the title page.Chevalier's historical novel is set in seventeenth century Delft, Holland, following the painter Johannes Vermeer and his new maid, Griet. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with price unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, fine. Dust wrapper lightly sunned to back strip, otherwise excellent. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright, though lightly age toned to perimeters, as is common with this work. Fine . Ill.: None. Fine/Near Fine.
