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The Lady and the Unicorn [SIGNED COPY, FIRST UK PRINTING]
by Chevalier, Tracy
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0007140908
- ISBN 13
- 9780007140909
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About This Item
London, England: HarperCollins Publishers, 2003. 1st UK edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. SIGNED by author on the title page (signature only). 1st UK edition, 1st printing, complete number line. Dust jacket as new except for faint sun-fading. Book has toning to the pageblock and slight weakening to the front hinge. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. By the WH Smith Fresh Talent-, Barnes and Noble Discover Award-, Fellow, Royal Society of Literature-, and Ohioana Book Award-winning author of 'Girl with a Pearl Earring' and 'The Last Runaway'. Where possible, all books come with dust jacket in a clear protective plastic sleeve, sealed in a ziplock bag, wrapped in bubble wrap, shipped in a box.
Synopsis
A tour de force of history and imagination, The Lady and the Unicorn is Tracy Chevalier’s answer to the mystery behind one of the art world’s great masterpieces—a set of bewitching medieval tapestries that hangs today in the Cluny Museum in Paris. They appear to portray the seduction of a unicorn, but the story behind their making is unknown—until now. Paris, 1490. A shrewd French nobleman commissions six lavish tapestries celebrating his rising status at Court. He hires the charismatic, arrogant, sublimely talented Nicolas des Innocents to design them. Nicolas creates havoc among the women in the house—mother and daughter, servant, and lady-in-waiting—before taking his designs north to the Brussels workshop where the tapestries are to be woven. There, master weaver Georges de la Chapelle risks everything he has to finish the tapestries—his finest, most intricate work—on time for his exacting French client. The results change all their lives—lives that have been captured in the tapestries, for those who know where to look. In The Lady and the Unicorn , Tracy Chevalier weaves fact and fiction into a beautiful, timeless, and intriguing literary tapestry—an extraordinary story exquisitely told.
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- Title
- The Lady and the Unicorn [SIGNED COPY, FIRST UK PRINTING]
- Author
- Chevalier, Tracy
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st UK edition 1st Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0007140908
- ISBN 13
- 9780007140909
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Place of Publication
- London, England
- Date Published
- 2003
- Pages
- 256
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