Girl with a Pearl Earring

First edition. Sm. 8vo. Pp. [vi], 248, [2]. Blue cloth boards, stamped in gilt to spine; decorated endpapers. Second state dust jacket with the corrected spelling of 'earring' on the back panel.

Spine ends pushed-in, tanning to textblock edges, light edgewear and creasing to dustwrapper, else very good.

Author's second book. Winner of the Barnes and Noble Discover Award for 2000. A 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. "Chevalier brings the real artist Vermeer and a fictional muse to life in a jewel of a novel." –Time Magazine