The Girl with a Pearl Earring (Easton Press Signed Collector's Edition)
CHEVALIER, Tracy. Girl with a Pearl Earring. Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2011.
Octavo. Full deep blue leather. Spine with four raised bands, 22-carat gilt accents. Gilt design, lettering and fore-edges. All edges gilt. Moiré silk endpapers. Satin ribbon page marker. 233 pp. Signed Collector's Edition. Part of the Easton Press Signed Modern Classics series. Signed by the author on the special limitation page. Includes signed Certificate of Authenticity and edition card. Originally published London: HarperCollins; New York: Dutton, 1999.
Tracy Chevalier (b. 1962) grew up in Washington D.C., studied English at Oberlin College, moved to England, worked for several years as a reference book editor, and took her MA in creative writing at the University of East Anglia before publishing her first novel in 1997. Girl with a Pearl Earring, her second, was published in 1999, won the Barnes & Noble Discover Award, and has since sold over five million copies in thirty-nine languages. The 2003 film adaptation, directed by Peter Webber and starring Scarlett Johansson as Griet and Colin Firth as Vermeer, was nominated for three Academy Awards and brought the novel to an audience of many millions who encountered Chevalier's invention before Vermeer's painting.
The painting itself — Vermeer's Meisje met de parel, circa 1665, now in the Mauritshuis in The Hague — is one of the most reproduced and most pondered works of the Dutch Golden Age. The young woman it depicts, head turned over one shoulder, lips slightly parted, wearing a turban of blue and gold and a single large teardrop pearl, looks out of the frame with an expression of such complexity and immediacy that viewers have been trying to name it for three centuries. Nothing is known about who she was. Chevalier, who has said that she first encountered the painting as a poster on her bedroom wall as a teenager, understood that the unknown identity of the subject was not a problem to be solved but a space to be inhabited.
The novel she wrote inhabits it through Griet, a sixteen-year-old Protestant girl from a modest Delft family who is sent to work as a maid in the household of Johannes Vermeer — a man of quiet intensity, domestic authority, and an eye for light and colour that perceives the world differently from everyone around him. Griet's understanding of what Vermeer sees and what he is doing develops alongside her growing proximity to him, and the novel's central drama is the delicate, charged, and ultimately costly negotiation between master and maid that culminates in the painting. Chevalier surrounds the central relationship with a precisely observed portrait of seventeenth-century Dutch domestic life — the Catholic and Protestant communities in uneasy proximity, the economics of artistic patronage, the circumscribed world of women's labour — that gives her invention the texture of historical reality without ever losing sight of the emotional story at its centre.
Near fine. Some very minor loss to cover gilt; faint spotting along gilt edges. Otherwise fine throughout.
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Catalogue Number: HH000543
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CHEVALIER, Tracy. Girl with a Pearl Earring. Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2011.
Octavo. Full deep blue leather. Spine with four raised bands, 22-carat gilt accents. Gilt design, lettering and fore-edges. All edges gilt. Moiré silk endpapers. Satin ribbon page marker. 233 pp. Signed Collector's Edition. Part of the Easton Press Signed Modern Classics series. Signed by the author on the special limitation page. Includes signed Certificate of Authenticity and edition card. Originally published London: HarperCollins; New York: Dutton, 1999.
Tracy Chevalier (b. 1962) grew up in Washington D.C., studied English at Oberlin College, moved to England, worked for several years as a reference book editor, and took her MA in creative writing at the University of East Anglia before publishing her first novel in 1997. Girl with a Pearl Earring, her second, was published in 1999, won the Barnes & Noble Discover Award, and has since sold over five million copies in thirty-nine languages. The 2003 film adaptation, directed by Peter Webber and starring Scarlett Johansson as Griet and Colin Firth as Vermeer, was nominated for three Academy Awards and brought the novel to an audience of many millions who encountered Chevalier's invention before Vermeer's painting.
The painting itself — Vermeer's Meisje met de parel, circa 1665, now in the Mauritshuis in The Hague — is one of the most reproduced and most pondered works of the Dutch Golden Age. The young woman it depicts, head turned over one shoulder, lips slightly parted, wearing a turban of blue and gold and a single large teardrop pearl, looks out of the frame with an expression of such complexity and immediacy that viewers have been trying to name it for three centuries. Nothing is known about who she was. Chevalier, who has said that she first encountered the painting as a poster on her bedroom wall as a teenager, understood that the unknown identity of the subject was not a problem to be solved but a space to be inhabited.
The novel she wrote inhabits it through Griet, a sixteen-year-old Protestant girl from a modest Delft family who is sent to work as a maid in the household of Johannes Vermeer — a man of quiet intensity, domestic authority, and an eye for light and colour that perceives the world differently from everyone around him. Griet's understanding of what Vermeer sees and what he is doing develops alongside her growing proximity to him, and the novel's central drama is the delicate, charged, and ultimately costly negotiation between master and maid that culminates in the painting. Chevalier surrounds the central relationship with a precisely observed portrait of seventeenth-century Dutch domestic life — the Catholic and Protestant communities in uneasy proximity, the economics of artistic patronage, the circumscribed world of women's labour — that gives her invention the texture of historical reality without ever losing sight of the emotional story at its centre.
Near fine. Some very minor loss to cover gilt; faint spotting along gilt edges. Otherwise fine throughout.
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Catalogue Number: HH000543
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CHEVALIER, Tracy. Girl with a Pearl Earring. Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2011.
Octavo. Full deep blue leather. Spine with four raised bands, 22-carat gilt accents. Gilt design, lettering and fore-edges. All edges gilt. Moiré silk endpapers. Satin ribbon page marker. 233 pp. Signed Collector's Edition. Part of the Easton Press Signed Modern Classics series. Signed by the author on the special limitation page. Includes signed Certificate of Authenticity and edition card. Originally published London: HarperCollins; New York: Dutton, 1999.
Tracy Chevalier (b. 1962) grew up in Washington D.C., studied English at Oberlin College, moved to England, worked for several years as a reference book editor, and took her MA in creative writing at the University of East Anglia before publishing her first novel in 1997. Girl with a Pearl Earring, her second, was published in 1999, won the Barnes & Noble Discover Award, and has since sold over five million copies in thirty-nine languages. The 2003 film adaptation, directed by Peter Webber and starring Scarlett Johansson as Griet and Colin Firth as Vermeer, was nominated for three Academy Awards and brought the novel to an audience of many millions who encountered Chevalier's invention before Vermeer's painting.
The painting itself — Vermeer's Meisje met de parel, circa 1665, now in the Mauritshuis in The Hague — is one of the most reproduced and most pondered works of the Dutch Golden Age. The young woman it depicts, head turned over one shoulder, lips slightly parted, wearing a turban of blue and gold and a single large teardrop pearl, looks out of the frame with an expression of such complexity and immediacy that viewers have been trying to name it for three centuries. Nothing is known about who she was. Chevalier, who has said that she first encountered the painting as a poster on her bedroom wall as a teenager, understood that the unknown identity of the subject was not a problem to be solved but a space to be inhabited.
The novel she wrote inhabits it through Griet, a sixteen-year-old Protestant girl from a modest Delft family who is sent to work as a maid in the household of Johannes Vermeer — a man of quiet intensity, domestic authority, and an eye for light and colour that perceives the world differently from everyone around him. Griet's understanding of what Vermeer sees and what he is doing develops alongside her growing proximity to him, and the novel's central drama is the delicate, charged, and ultimately costly negotiation between master and maid that culminates in the painting. Chevalier surrounds the central relationship with a precisely observed portrait of seventeenth-century Dutch domestic life — the Catholic and Protestant communities in uneasy proximity, the economics of artistic patronage, the circumscribed world of women's labour — that gives her invention the texture of historical reality without ever losing sight of the emotional story at its centre.
Near fine. Some very minor loss to cover gilt; faint spotting along gilt edges. Otherwise fine throughout.
This book is currently not on display in store. If you would like more information or to arrange a viewing, please contact: [email protected]
Catalogue Number: HH000543
