Twilight Eyes – First Edition
See Also: Twilight Eyes – Second Edition (DK) Twilight Eyes – Second Edition (DRK) Afterword to Twilight Eyes (Second Edition) Dean Koontz Collection Strangers & Twilight Eyes
Advance Promotional Booklet
28 page promotional booklet, stapled, 8.5”x11”
Wrap-around cover featuring the hardcover cover art with the Land of Enchantment address on the back. Inside front cover is promotional text and the inside back cover contains images of four of the book’s illustrated pages.
Inside front cover includes the following text: “BONUS SECTION To help familiarize you with TWILIGHT EYES, we have included 19 pages from the books [sic] first two chapters. This includes one of the two color fold outs which may be used for display purposes.”
Trade Hardcover
Text © 1985 by Nkui, Inc.
Illustrations © 1985 by Phil Parks - Dust Wrapper, 2 interior fold-out illustrations, 8 color plates, 20 b&w illustrations
Limited Hardcover
Text © 1985 by Nkui, Inc.
Illustrations © 1985 by Phil Parks - Dust Wrapper, 2 interior fold-out illustrations, 8 color plates, 20 b&w illustrations
Signed by author and artist.
Dean appears in the illustration on p. 62, left edge.
Signature Edition
Contains original illustration by Phil Parks and poem by Dean R. Koontz
Includes the publisher's 20-page "Bonus Section" booklet with a double-page folding color plate.
Numbered
Parks Remarqued Edition
9 of the 250 numbered copies, contain an original color drawing by Phil Parks before the title page.
Stone auction description:
263, [1] pp. Numerous illustrations in color and black and white by Phil Parks; pictorial endpapers. (4to) 11x8½, gilt-decorated black boards, color pictorial jacket, publisher's gilt-decorated slipcase. No. 114 of 250 copies designated as the "Signature Edition," this copy being a special issue, one of 9 copies, which contains an original color drawing by Phil Parks before the title page. First Edition.
Signed by the author and artist in the colophon. Signed by the publisher on the title page. Original color drawing inscribed and signed: "To Art, Next trip to the carnival, it might be wise to exercise above average care, watching for guys in human disguise fixing rides that don't need repair! Phil Parks." Also, a typed letter signed by Parks, dated October 4, 1990, addressed to Art Stone, explaining that this copy "is one of nine in [a] small series and is not likely to be repeated elsewhere. Unless, of course, you give a thousand monkeys colored pencils and unlimited sheets of paper..." and the publisher's 20-page "Bonus Section" booklet with a double-page folding color plate signed by Koontz and Parks, laid in.
Cover image courtesy of Noah Mitchell.
Notes
Full-page advertisement in Footsteps, December, 1985, p. 29
A Phil Parks promotional t-shirt was released with the image of the carousel horse head from this cover.
A promotional poster of the cover artwork was also released in two known states:
- State A: Unnumbered, signed by both Dean and Phil. Quantity unknown.
- State B: 350 numbered copies, some signed by both Dean and Phil, some signed by just Phil. The number of each are unknown.
Last updated on April 2nd, 2018