THE EXORCIST [and] LEGION

Deluxe edition, limited edition. Signed by the author. Publisher's original red leather boards with titles and decorative pattern in gilt to the upper board and to the spine, and with further decorative pattern in gilt to the lower board. Housed in dark red leather, silk lined traycase with titles and decorative pattern in gilt. Black satin bookmark. Textured endpapers. Not illustrated, but includes black and white patterned pages, designed by Kathryn Freeman, to separate the contents. 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, structurally sound traycase.

Issued in an edition of 52 lettered copies and several publisher's copies, this example is marked 'PC' and signed by the William Blatty in black ink on the limitation page. This deluxe signed edition beings together Blatty's iconic horror novel 'The Exorcist' (Harper & Row, NY: 1971), the sequel 'Legion' (Simon & Schuster, NY: 1983), and 'A Conversation with William Peter Blatty' by Brian James Freeman. 'The Exorcist' was William Blatty's fifth novel, most famous for its 1973 film adaptation, and was directed by William Friedkin and starred Ellen Burstyn, Max von Sydow, Jason Miller, and Linda Blair. In addition to providing the screenplay, for which he won the Academy Award in 1976, Blatty was also a producer on the film.