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Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press. Fine with No dust jacket as issued. 2011. Limited. Hardcover. Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 233 pages; Signed by Author .

London: HarperCollins [Harper Collins], 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine-. First Impression (no further printings noted), in first state dust jacket, with 'earing' misspelled on back panel. Small 8vo: [6],248,[2]pp. Publisher's French blue cloth, spine stamped in gilt (still brilliant); pictorial dust jacket, priced £9.99. Signed by Chevalier on title page. Laid in is a ticket from the literature festival in Derby where the book was autographed. Fine (small decorative book plate to front fly-leaf) in about Fine jacket (tiny nick to base of spine panel). The author's second novel, which sold more than five million copies worldwide and was translated into 36 languages. Supposedly, a poster of Vermeer's "Girl with a Pearl Earring," hanging on Chevalier's bedroom wall for some 15 years, inspired this novel set in 17th century Delft. Chevalier was lying in bed gazing absent-mindedly at the poster when she fixed on the mysterious girl's expression (her half open mouth and expectant gaze) and… Read More

HarperCollins, 1999. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine in fine dustjacket. Signed by the author. With the word 'earing' on the rear of the jacket, the mis-spelling indicating the true first printing. Scarce in such nice condition and with these two attributes.