THE EXORCIST

40th Anniversary edition. First edition with these illustrations. Signed by the author. Limited edition. Publisher's original cream faux leather boards with titles in red foil to the upper board and spine, in the Jeremy Caniglia illustrated dustwrapper and red faux leather slipcase with titles in gilt. Red silk bookmark.Textured endpapers. With 13 full page colour illustrations by and full-page illustrated chapter headings in black and white by Cafiglia. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, bright and fresh. The contents are clean throughout, and without previous owners' inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the fine original dustwrapper which is bright and fresh, and without fading, loss, or tears. Not price-clipped ($100.00 to the upper inside flap). Housed in the fine, structurally sound slipcase.

Issued in an edition of 374 numbered copies (and 26 lettered copies), from which this example is numbered 183, and signed by William Blatty in blue ink on the limitation page. William Blatty's fifth novel, most famous for its 1973 film adaptation, was directed by William Friedkin and starred Ellen Burstyn, Max von Sydow, Jason Miller, and Linda Blair. In addition to providing the screenplay, Blatty was also a producer on the film. For this 40th Anniversary Edition the author returned to the original manuscript, and reworked portions of the book that never satisfied him.