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William Peter Blatty. The Exorcist.

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William Peter Blatty. The Exorcist.
<B>William Peter Blatty. </B></I><B><I>The Exorcist</B></I></B></I><B>.</B></I> William Peter Blatty. New York, Evanston, San Francisco, London: Harper & Row, Publishers, [1971].<BR><BR>First edition. Octavo. 340 pages.<BR><BR>Publisher's red cloth covers with the Harper & Row device blind-stamped onto the front cover. Spine lettered in gilt. Tan endpapers. Slightly rubbed, corners, head, and foot lightly bumped. Altogether a very good copy.<BR><BR>William Peter Blatty (January 7, 1928) authored both the present novel and the Academy Award winning screenplay. Although he did not publish this novel until 1971, he was inspired by an exorcism he heard about in 1949 as a student at the Jesuit and Catholic Georgetown University.<BR><BR><b>Shipping:</b> Books & Catalogs (<a target="_blank" href="http://www.heritageauctions.com/common/shipping.php">view shipping information</a>)