The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty [RARE LEATHERETTE BOOK CLUB EDITION / 1971]

The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty

FIRST BOOK CLUB EDITION [1971] HARPER & ROW

Beautiful scarce book club printing with red leatherette cover and sharp bold black title on spine.

Hardcover sans dust jacket.   Like new! 

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 . . .