Boards Hard front and rear covers of a bound book which are covered in cloth, leather or paper.

Association Copy copy that belonged to someone connected with the author or the contents of a book.

Armorial Used to describe a binding bearing the coat of arms of the original owner, or with bookplates incorporating the owner’s arms.

Although the name contains the word “tint”, this is a black-and-white printing process aquatint plates can often be hand colored, however. By changing the areas of the plate that are exposed and the length of time the plate is submerged in the acid bath, the engraver can obtain fine and varying shades of gray that closely resemble watercolor washes.

Aquatint Copperplate process by which the plate is “bitten” by exposure to acid.

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We ship worldwide and all packages will be sent via UPS or Federal Express unless another carrier is requested. We do ask that if you are not satisfied with the item, you contact us by phone as quickly as possible and return the item within ten days. For first-time buyers, we prefer a credit card and we will only ship to the billing address on the card. We accept MasterCard, Visa, American Express, Discover, checks and wire transfer. For some items, we can also email digital photographs.Īll of our items are guaranteed as described and are shipped on approval. If you are interested in an item from one of our catalogues or our website and would like more information before ordering it, please give us a call one of our salespeople will be happy to speak with you and answer any questions that you might have. Issued the same year as a signed limited edition (95 copies), no priority established. Director Martin Scorsese adapted Lehane’s novel to the screen in 2010 with stars Leonard DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo and Ben Kingsley. “Among contemporary American hard-boiled writers, Dennis Lehane produces some of the most brutal and compelling work,” and in Shutter Island, set in 1954 in an isolated hospital for the criminally insane, Lehane follows up his 2001 breakthrough novel Mystic River with “the mind-bending twists of an eerie, startlingly original story” ( New York Times).

Octavo, original half red paper boards, original dust jacket.įirst trade edition, signed on the title page by Lehane, acclaimed “heir apparent… the great ones-Chandler, Macdonald, Parker,” basis for the Scorsese film starring Leonard DiCaprio, in original dust jacket. New York: William Morrow / HarperCollins, 2003. “AN EERIE, STARTLING ORIGINAL STORY”: FIRST EDITION OF SHUTTER ISLAND, SIGNED BY DENNIS LEHANE

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