ODDKINS: A FABLE FOR ALL AGES.**

UK,landscape 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn. FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,dw/dj unclipped - no publisher's price present. Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,colour pictorial artwork by Phil Parks,illustrated dw/dj; with negligible shelf- wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present - virtually as new.Top-edge has minimal foxing/ spotting towards edge of fore-edges,fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight and clean - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - an unread copy? Bright,clean,immaculate,sharp-cornered,white paper-covered boards with double-page colour illustrated endpapers and bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/ backstrip,and a yellow headband.UK,landscape 8vo HB+ dw/dj,1st edn,1-180pp [paginated] includes Pts 1-5 comprising 55 chapter/sections,9 double-page,14 full-page,and several part-page full-colour illustrations all by Phil Parks; plus [unpaginated] title page along with the last 3 pages. Out-of-print,and a very SCARCE and sought after title, particularly in as good/high a grade as this.See also,my book ID rja425912 for another scarce UK,s/back 1st edn, but in p/b format,of this same title.
Opening sentence: Amos the bear was standing on the toymaker's bench,looking through the casement window at the purple-black storm clouds rolling in from the east. Quite a departure from the author's usual work. Koontz has said that he admires those children's books that can be read and enjoyed by adults, those that have different levels of meaning and charm,depending on the age of it's reader. 'ODDKINS' is precisely such a novel. This 45,000-word story was originally published in an unusual rectangular,horizontal,hardcover format with fifty pages of marvellous full-colour illustrations by Phil Parks. Film rights were bought outright by Warner Brothers, who for a while intended to make it as an animated film with director Tim Burton.The book has been out-of-print for several years now,and Koontz receives hundreds of letters a year,requesting a new edition,which he intends to do so,but sometime in the future.Koontz has also said that he doubts he will ever write another children's book.
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