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BLATTY, William Peter (1928-2017). The Exorcist. New York: Harper & Row, 1971.
8vo. Original maroon cloth with titles stamped in silver (spine a bit toned, some light rubbing, soiling); original dust jacket (four tape repairs to jacket verso, jacket edgeworn with several marginal chips and tears).
FIRST EDITION. A modern classic of the horror genre, The Exorcist was inspired by a purported 1949 case in which a young boy in Cottage City, Maryland was supposedly possessed by a demon and then exorcised by two priests. The book was later adapted into the 1973 Academy Award-winning film of the same name by William Friedkin, starring Ellyn Burstyn and Linda Blair.