London: Harper Collins. This is a Fine Copy of this Book in blue cloth with gilt title lettering to spine in a Fine Dust-Jacketb that has NO chips or tears to the outer edges of the dust-jacket.Not price clipped (£9.99) stated to the front flap.This is the rare First State Dust-Wrapper with Earring mispelt to the rear panel.The book has a firm binding with NO hinge weakness,no turned corners to the pages.There is just a little tanning to the text block edges.The wrapper comes well protected in a removable cover sleeve,8vo 248p First UK Edition 1st State Dust-wrapper [1999] . Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 1st Printing. 1999.

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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: Richard Thornton Books (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 81251
Title: Girl With a Pearl Earring
Author: Chevalier,Tracy
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First Edition
ISBN 10: 0002258900
ISBN 13: 9780002258906
Publisher: Harper Collins
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 1999
Size: 8vo.
Bookseller catalogs: MODERN FIRSTS;

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