The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty [1971 HARDCOVER]

The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty

FIRST BOOK CLUB PRINTING [1971] HARPER & ROW

Hardcover with dust jacket in excellent condition.

Dust jacket is in beautiful shape; a few tiny edge tears.  Otherwise excellent.  Housed in a protective mylar jacket. 

 Book itself is tight and reads like new.   Clean red cloth boards w/ gilded title on spine. 

The terrifying novel that inspired the historic motion picture... 

Georgetown, Washington D.C., 1973...

Actress and divorced mother Chris MacNeil starts to experience 'difficulties' with her usually sweet-natured eleven-year-old daughter Regan. The child becomes afflicted by spasms, convulsions and unsettling amnesiac episodes; these abruptly worsen into violent fits of appalling foul-mouthed curses, accompanied by physical mutation. Medical science is baffled by Regan's plight and, in her increasing despair, Chris turns to troubled priest and psychiatrist Damien Karras, who immediately recognises something profoundly malevolent in Regan's distorted fetures and speech. On Karras's recommendation, the Church summons Father Merrin, a specialist in the exorcism of demons . . .