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Signed book: The Exorcist. Second printing. NY: Harper & Row, 1971. Hardcover with dust jacket, 5.75 x 8.5, 340 pages. Signed and inscribed on the first free end page in green felt tip, "To my dear cousin, Mary Blatty, with great appreciation—William Peter Blatty, December 28, 1971." Autographic condition: fine. Book condition: VG/VG, with a ding to the front board and a tiny edge tear to the top edge of the jacket.
Published in 1971, The Exorcist became one of the decade’s defining bestsellers and a landmark of modern horror, drawing on William Peter Blatty’s fascination with a reported 1949 exorcism. Its enormous success led to the acclaimed 1973 film adaptation, which Blatty produced and scripted, winning the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. Inscribed to a member of his own family in the year of publication, this copy carries an especially personal association.
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