THE EXORCIST

First UK edition, first printing. Original black cloth with metallic green lettering to the spine, in the dustwrapper designed by Frederick Cantor. A very good copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth clean. The contents, with light toning to the paperstock, are otherwise clean and without inscriptions or stamps. There is some faint damp staining to the closed text block edge. Complete with the rubbed, nicked and creased dustwrapper which has a short closed tear to the top edge of the rear panel and is otherwise without loss. Not price-clipped (£2.25 net to the front flap).

William Blatty's fifth novel, most famous for its 1973 film adaptation, directed by William Friedkin and starring Ellen Burstyn, Max von Sydow, Jason Miller, and Linda Blair. In addition to providing the screenplay, Blatty was a producer on the film.