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BLATTY, William Peter (1928-2017). The Exorcist. New York: Harper & Row, 1971.
8vo. Original maroon cloth-backed buckram; original dust jacket (rubbing to spine, toning at interior edges of dust jacket). Provenance: “Cramer” (inscription on front free endpaper).
FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY BLATTY. 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 an Academy Award-winning film of the same name by William Friedkin.