Ashley Bell by Dean Koontz. Charnel House (founded by Joe Stefko, rock-star-drummer turned fine press publisher). #236 of 250 copies, signed by Dean Koontz. Signature page bound in back. (2015). Hardcover with no dust jacket in black silk slipcase, with, separately a letter on Dean Koontz letterhead, signed by Koontz, presenting the book to the addressee. 
      SLIPCASE: A pin-head sized bit of soiling. Maybe very slight edge wear. Solid with no breaks. 
      BOOK: Bound in white Scrabblemancy Alphabet Cave handmade paper.  I really don't see any wear or flaws. No previous owner markings. No tears, folds or creases to pages. Binding is tight with no looseness to pages. Not ex-library, not remaindered and not a facsimile reprint. 
     LETTER: Presenting the book to the addressee. Describes Koontz's own love of books, describing something about this book and thanks folks who have helped him. The letter implies that 100 copies of the letter were sent out with the limited edition book - ("I am saying thank-you to 100"). Letter is also signed by Dean Koontz. Letter is flat with no creases or previous owner markings. 
     For sale by Jon Wobber, bookseller since 1978. KG04b 

"At twenty-two, Bibi Blair’s doctors tell her that she’s dying. Two days later, she’s impossibly cured. Fierce, funny, dauntless, she becomes obsessed with the idea that she was spared because she is meant to save someone else. Someone named Ashley Bell. This proves to be a dangerous idea. Searching for Ashley Bell, ricocheting through a southern California landscape that proves strange and malevolent in the extreme, Bibi is plunged into a world of crime and conspiracy, following a trail of mysteries that become more sinister and tangled with every twisting turn.
      Unprecedented in scope, infinite in heart, Ashley Bell is a magnificent achievement that will capture lovers of dark psychological suspense, literary thrillers, and modern classics of mystery and adventure. Beautifully written, at once lyrical and as fast as a bullet, here is the most irresistible novel of the decade." - goodreads