The Omen

A terrifying thriller of supernatural evil, The Omen by David Seltzer is the novelization of his screenplay for the film that spawned one of the most successful horror franchises of all time.

World-renowned diplomat Jeremy Thorn and his wife Katherine have just welcomed the newest member of their family: their beautiful son, Damien. A cherubic boy with fair features, Damien appears to be the picture of innocence, but as he grows, so too do the violent, unexplained incidents, from fatal accidents to suicides. Soon Jeremy and Katherine will learn the horrible truth of the terror that seems to follow their family wherever they go, and which was foretold two thousand years ago.

First published as a Signet paperback in June 1976, David Seltzer’s novelization hit bookshelves two weeks before the movie’s release. While novelizations of screenplays and teleplays had long been a part of the publishing landscape, the art form hit its peak with The Omen when the paperback sold three and a half million copies, an unprecedented achievement at the time, making The Omen one of the bestselling books of the year..

Artist Gift Edition Specifications

• 6” x 9” trim size.
• 272 Pages.
• Limited to 750 unnumbered copies.
• Full cloth smyth-sewn binding.
• Two-hits foil stamping.
• New exclusive afterword, "My Deal with the Devil," by David Seltzer.
• Six full color illustrations by Juliana Kolesova.
• Dust jacket featuring wraparound artwork by Juliana Kolesova (the only edition featuring the dust jacket).
• Signed by Juliana Kolesova.
• Endsheets are embossed Rainbow paper.
• Printed offset on archival Cougar Vellum paper.
• Housed in a durable acrylic-coated embossed paper covered slipcase.
• Bookmark with all pre-orders.

NUMBERED EDITION

• 6” x 9” trim size.
• 272 pages.
• Limited to 350 copies.
• Flatback Bradel binding with handmade marbled paper over the front board, and black European cloth covering the spine and back cover.
• Marbled papers custom made for this edition in France by Claire Guillot.
• Cover and spine labels foil stamped on Hahnemühle Bugra.
• New exclusive afterword, "My Deal with the Devil," by David Seltzer.
• Six full color illustrations by Juliana Kolesova.
• Signed by David Seltzer and Juliana Kolesova.
• Endsheets are black Bugra.
• Printed offset on archival Cougar Natural Vellum paper.
• Housed in a die-cut slipcase covered with an acrylic-coated embossed paper.
• Bookmark with all pre-orders.

LETTERED EDITION

• 6” x 9” trim size.
• 272 Pages.
• Limited to 26 copies.
• Full goatskin Bradel binding with a leather onlay on the cover.
• Endsheets are hand marbled Renato Crepaldi.
• Housed in a clamshell enclosure covered in European book linen with a crinkled surface and is lined with flocked velour.
• New exclusive afterword, "My Deal with the Devil," by David Seltzer.
• Six full color illustrations by Juliana Kolesova.
• Signed by David Seltzer and Juliana Kolesova.
• Printed offset on archival Cougar Natural Vellum paper.
• Bookmark with all pre-orders.

A note about the lettered copy being offered.  This is letter "Y" and the book is fine, but the traycase was damaged in shipping.  The side opposite the spine is affected, the back top corner is badly bumped, the bottom corners of both the front and back are slighly bumped, all as pictured above.  The case displays well on the shelf with the spine out, but the bumps are there on the traycase only.  We inquired of Suntup to see if they had any extra traycases, they do not, hence the price.