Encanto Books

Comments: Very RARE copy. Fore-edge of board bumped.
Synopsis: A shocking photo screamed from the front pages of the tabloids–the last moments of a life captured for all the world to see. The look of sheer terror eternally frozen on the face of the doomed woman indicated that her fatal fall from an upper story of an unfinished Seattle skyscraper was no desperate suicide–and that look will forever haunt Homicide Detective J.P. Beaumont. But his hunt for answers and justice is leading to more death, and to dark and terrible secrets scrupulously guarded by men of steel behind the locked doors of a powerful union that extracts its dues payments in blood.

Comments: Back of d-j has very subtle shelf wear.
Synopsis: A politician wakes with a beautiful girl; a criminal briefs his team; a tycoon breakfasts with a Bank official. Then three stories break: an attempted suicide, a hijack, and a takeover bid. They seem unrelated – until Evening Post reporters ask questions. Why is a Jamaican bank in trouble? Who drove the Rolls-Royce seen near the raid? Who was the man with gunshot wounds? As the day wears on, new questions arise – about paper money.

Comments: Spine cocked. Ink marks on top edge. Minor indentation on bottom of front cover. A little tanning on inside cover and FFEP. Cloth on back cover has two spots that are raised but don't look bad. D-j pc'd, has shelf wear and slight chipping to spine.
Synopsis: Chief Inspector Wexford had every reason to remember the Painter case – it was the first murder he'd ever handled on his own. There had been no doubts about the case, until now. Someone wants the case reopened, and they want Wexford proved wrong.

Comments: Top edge discolored from age. Light wear to d-j.
Synopsis: The third in Doris Lessing's visionary novel cycle Canopus in Argos: Archives. It is a mix of fable, futuristic fantasy and pseudo-documentary accounts of 20th-century history.

Comments: Tight clean copy with doodle drawing above signature.Synopsis: A reluctant voyager crossing the Pacific in 1850; a disinherited composer blagging a precarious livelihood in between-the-wars Belgium; a high-minded journalist in Governor Reagan's California; a vanity publisher fleeing his gangland creditors; a genetically modified 'dinery server' on death-row; and Zachry, a young Pacific Islander witnessing the nightfall of science and civilisation – the narrators of Cloud Atlas hear each other's echoes down the corridor of history, and their destinies are changed in ways great and small.
In his captivating third novel, David Mitchell erases the boundaries of language, genre and time to offer a meditation on humanity's dangerous will to power, and where it may lead us.

Comments: SIGNED in blue ink by JOHN HERSEY on third free endpaper (bound in, not tipped in); tissue guard laid in. 1982 Franklin Library Limited Edition leather bound collector's edition. Rich deep green hand-cut full leather boards with ornate gilt design. Hubbed spine. All edges gilt. Lovely green silk moire endpapers, matching bound-in ribbon. Textblock clean, tight, square, black and white illustrations by Luba Krugman Gurdus. No d-j issued.
Synopsis: Riveting & compelling, The Wall tells the inspiring story of forty men & women who escape the dehumanizing horror of the Warsaw ghetto. John Hersey's novel documents the Warsaw ghetto both as an emblem of Nazi persecution & as a personal confrontation with torture, starvation, humiliation & cruelty–a gripping, visceral story, impossible to put down.

Comments: Signed by Shaw on the second blank page with tissue guard laid over. Bound in blue full leather with design and lettering stamped in gilt. All edges in gilt. Gray moiré endpapers with ribbon place marker. No d-j issued.
Synopsis: The Young Lions is a vivid and classic novel that portrays the experiences of ordinary soldiers fighting World War II. Told from the points of view of a perceptive young Nazi, a jaded American film producer, and a shy Jewish boy just married to the love of his life, Shaw conveys, as no other novelist has since, the scope, confusion, and complexity of war.