William Peter Blatty

The Exorcist

New York, Harper & Row, 1971. First edition. Cloth. A sought after first edition copy of this gripping horror novel by William Peter Blatty, the inspiration for the film of the same name. The first edition, first printing.In the publisher's original price-clipped dust wrapper.Inspired by a 1949 case of supposed demonic possession and exorcism, Blatty's novel details the demonic possession of eleven-year-old Regan MacNeil, the daughter of a famous actress, and the two priests who attempt to exorcise the demon from her.The novel was highly successful, resulting in a 1973 film adaptation for which Blatty himself won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. In the original publisher's cloth binding, in the original price-clipped dust wrapper. Externally, smart. Light bumping to the head and tail of the spine, and to the extremities. Light edge wear to the dust wrapper, with a few small closed tears. A few light marks to the dust wrapper, including to the reverse. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Small closed tear to the tail of the half-title. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine/Very Good.

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Book number: 881P34

Catalogue: American Literature

Keywords: The Exorcist william peter blatty horro demon william peter blatty None

BLATTY, William Peter

The Exorcist

London, Faber & Faber, 1998. Used - Very Good. VG paperback Pbk.ed.. Screenplay of the film. A Sight & Sound promotional copy. A clean & tidy copy. Photo:. ISBN: 0571200915

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Book number: BOOKS107997I

Blatty, William Peter,

John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!.

Garden City, Ny., Doubleday & Company, 1963. 1st Edition. Hardcover., Vg- in Black Boards with Orange Lettering at Spine. No Dj. Pages: 158. Toning. Text Block Clean, Binding Tight.

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Book number: MASTER212199I

Catalogue: Literature

Blatty, William Peter

John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!

Crest. Paperback , Condition: Good.

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BLATTY, William Peter

Legion

New York, Simon and Schuster, 1983. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black cloth spine and red paper over boards, dust jacket. 269pp. Near fine/near fine. Small abrasion at upper right of front flyleaf. First edition, tight and attractive, of this suspenseful mystery surrounding a series of murders committed in mock crucifixions, by the author of "The Exorcist. .

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Book number: 32073

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Keywords: MODERN FICTION Modern Fiction

Blatty, William Peter

Legion: Signed Slipcased Artist Edition: #/750

Suntup Editions. 2023, First Edition/First Printing. Hardcover. Ill.: Matt Mahurin. Book, A deeply philosophical mystery filled with suspense and horror, Legion is William Peter Blatty's sequel to The Exorcist. When a deaf-mute boy is found horribly murdered in a mock crucifixion, Lieutenant Kinderman sees it not only as a crime but as a larger mystery: whether or not a merciful God can exist if He allows such monstrous evil. His investigation leads him to a cast of unusual suspects: An elderly woman who witnessed the crime, a neurologist grieving the loss of his wife, a psychiatrist with a macabre sense of humor, and a mysterious mental patient locked in silent isolation. As the detective follows a bewildering trail that links these individuals, he confronts a new enigma at every turn. Why does each victim suffer the same dreadful mutilations? Why are two of the victims priests? Is there a connection between these crimes and another series of murders that took place twelve years ago? To discover the answers and solve the case, Lieutenant Kinderman will have to grapple with the ultimate mystery of faith. Legion was first published in 1983-twelve years after the enormous success of The Exorcist. Critics called the novel "infinitely more suspenseful than The Exorcist" (Los Angeles Times), "mesmerizing and horrifying" (USA Today), and "heart-skipping horror" (Cosmopolitan). In 1990, William Peter Blatty adapted Legion into The Exorcist III, both writing the screenplay and directing the motion picture. ARTIST EDITION 6" x 9" trim size. 320 Pages. Limited to 750 copies. Signed by Matt Mahurin. Full cloth symth-sewn binding. Foil blocked cover and spine. New exclusive introduction by Michael Peter Blatty. Six full color illustrations by Matt Mahurin. Dust jacket illustrated by Matt Mahurin (the only edition featuring this illustrated dust jacket). Set in Copernicus and Erler Titling. Printed offset on archival Cougar paper. Housed in an embossed paper covered slipcase. This copy will include the errata slip THIS COPY IS IN MY POSSESSION AND NORMALLY SHIPS NEXT DAY. Fine/Fine. Signed Copy.

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Book number: 046575

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William Peter Blatty

Legion

London, Collins, 1983. First edition. Cloth. The first UK edition of the sequel to the popular horror novel 'The Exorcist' by William Peter Blatty. The first edition. In the publisher's original cloth with the original unclipped dust wrapper. This horror novel is the sequel to the immensely popular horror novel and movie 'The Exorcist', and was written by American writer and director William Peter Blatty. This novel was also adapted into the film 'The Exorcist III' and follows detective Kinderman who investigates a series of murders that have all the hallmarks of a series killer and soon he finds links to the events in the previous novel. In the publisher's original cloth with the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally lovely with only minimal bumping to the tail of the spine. The wrap is also lovely with only slight marks and the slightest edge wear. Internally firmly bound with clean and age toned pages, as usual with this work. Fine . Ill.: None. Fine/Near Fine.

Rooke BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 900Z21

Catalogue: Ghost Stories

Keywords: First edition The Exorcist Horror Demons The Exorcist None

Blatty, William Peter

I'LL Tell Them I Remember You

New York, W. W. Norton & Co. c1973. 1st printing. Hardcover. 173p. Very good condition/good, Author's name written on front flyleaf may or may not be autograph .

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Book number: 34943

Catalogue: Fiction

Keywords: American Literature First Editions Autobiography

Blatty, William Peter

I'll Tell Them I Remember You

New York, W.W. Norton. 1973, First Edition/First Printing. (ISBN: 039307479x) Hardcover. Book, A solid tight very carefully read copy. This copy has some veryyyyyyyyyy slight lean,veryyyyyyyy minoy pagedge soil. The plainpaper 5.95 jacket has some edgewear and some rubbing wear,mostly at the folds. THIS COPY IS IN MY POSSESSION AND WILL NORMALLY SHIP NEXT DAY. N-Fine/Very Good +.

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Book number: 023542

Catalogue: Auto-Biography

Keywords: 039307479x / Memoirs

Blatty, William Peter

I'Ll Tell Them I Remember You

NY: Norton, 1973. 1st printing of 1st edition., Light dust soiling along top edge otherwise very good+ hard cover book/ triangular chip at head of dust jacket spine otherwise good dust jacket.

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Book number: 654049

Catalogue: Fiction

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Blatty, William Peter (signed by author),

I'll Tell Them I Remember You.

NY, Norton, (1971). VG in G DJ. Blatty's remembrance of his mother Mary, about The Exorcist, and about life after death. Donated by Bill Sanborn for benefit. of the Denmark Congregational Church. DJ edge wear. Blatty's mother was an immigrant, destitute, who supported five children in New York on Manhattan, desperate and hungry, pleasing with an arrogant social worker or whoever could help her. Blatty's signature on front endpaper.

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Book number: BOOKS053094I

Catalogue: Biography

Blatty, William Peter

Viva Las Vegas

Forest Hill, Lonely Road Books. 2018, First Edition/First Printing. Hardcover. Book, A square solid tight clean unread unused copy. One book of a five book limited edition set titled William Peter Blatty's Lost Screenplay Collection. The screenplay was submitted by the author for the Elvis Presley movie but was rejected/wasn't used. Gold inlay to both covers and spine. THIS COPY IS IN MY POSSESSION AND WILL NORMALLY SHIP NEXT DAY. Fine/None,As Issued.

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Book number: 043467

Blatty, William Peter

William Peter Blatty's Lost Screenplay Collection: Signed Slipcased Limited Edition #332/390

Forest Hill, Lonely Road Books. 2018, First Edition/First Printing. Hardcover. Book, William Peter Blatty has opened his personal library to share five screenplays he wrote at different stages of his career. Blatty's personal notes about these screenplays: Each screenplay is bound as its own collectible Limited Edition volume and those five volumes are housed in a hand-made slipcase. Each screenplay is an exact reproduction of the writer's work, down to any imperfections in the typewriter he was using at the time. These versions included here have never been read outside the offices of Hollywood production companies and Blatty's personal library, so this is a rare glimpse into an alternate film universe that could have been very different from the one we know. There are no plans for these screenplays to ever be reprinted. Viva Las Vegas, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Mastermind, Handcarved Coffins and Demons Five, Exorcists Nothing Blatty's personal notes about these screenplays: Viva Las Vegas. How naive could I be? My comedic premise was that Elvis was hired as a Vegas casino lounge act because the booker was certain he was so loud and annoying he would drive the gamblers out of the lounge and to the tables. The "Colonel" was not amused. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest was written in 1968 for Kirk Douglas who was to play McMurphy. I met with Ken Kesey and crafted the script to be as faithful to the novel as I could possibly make it, which was not the case with the film made years later with Jack Nicholson. That this script with Kirk in the lead wasn't made is perhaps the biggest heartbreak of my literary career. Mastermind was a spec script with the lead character emulating my Inspector Clouseau from A Shot in the Dark, the second film in The Pink Panther series. The key to the fun with Clouseau was his sensitive sense of dignity, so I created Japanese Inspector of Police Hoku Fat with that same essence in mind. The new head of ABC Films and his assistant met with me in my office at Warner Brothers to tell me - are you sitting down? - that "Inspector Clouseau isn't good enough anymore. You need a serious theme. We suggest Youth versus Age." With rewrite money and a three month stay in Tokyo where the film would be shot on the line, I replied that I "couldn't be a party to the destruction of my material." I was fired. Worse befell ABC Films: the rewritten screenplay to this day can only be seen on Kuwaiti Airways. Handcarved Coffins is based on a vaguely plotted, unfinished novella by Truman Capote with Michael Cimino set to direct. I gave it a plot but Michael wasn't satisfied and my screenplay languishes somewhere in the ether just above Laurel Canyon. Demons Five, Exorcists Nothing is entirely based on my novel of the same name and is built around the making of a film very much like The Exorcist. I think of both the novel and the screenplay as "A Christmas Carol for Hollywood." With an over sized page size and an extremely low print run, these Limited Edition volumes are printed on a high-quality paper stock and feature a deluxe binding selected from the finest materials available. This stunning special edition set will be a fine addition to any collector's personal library. All five books are bound in green leather/faux leather?? with gold inlay housed is a matching slipcase. This copy is #332 of 390. THIS COPY IS IN MY POSSESSION AND WILL NORMALLY SHIP NEXT DAY. Fine. Signed by Author(s).

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Book number: 041993

MACDONALD, PHILIP; LANDON, KENNETH; EASTLAKE, WILLIAM; ALBEE, GEORGE SUMNER; SHANNON, JONES B.; RUARK, ROBERT C.; PAXTON, HARRY T.; BLATTY, WILLIAM PETER; PEARSE, BEN; NICHOLSON, ARNOLD; RUTLEDGE, NANCY; CHAMBERLAIN, WILLIAM

The Saturday Evening Post, March 29, 1958 - Architect Royal Barry Wills / Pitcher Jack Sanford

USA: Curtis, 1958. First Edition. Paperback. Coby. 100 pages. Short Stories: Impossible Accident; Brothers' Quarrel; Man Trap; Gigolo. Articles: Religious Revolution on the Campus; The Land That Time Forgot - Part II - Stronghold of the Kukukuku; Baseball's Oldest Youngster - Jack Sanford; They Believed I Was an Arab Prince - William Peter Blatty poses as "Prince Xeer" for ten days - gullible Hollywood bows and scrapes; Don't Fall for the Mail Frauds; The Face of America - Dear Teacher - lovely color photo of Principal John Martin of Hillview Elementary School in Menlo Park, CA - surrounded by kindergarteners; Architect Royal Berry Wills - Big Man in Small Houses. Serials: Death Stalks the Bride (part 1 of 4); Seven Days to Tingyong (part 2 of 3). Ads: Philadelphia Electric Company; Special K cereal; Vitasafe; Mobil service stations - two pages with great color photos; Wheeling Corrugating Company; Mercury Outboards - nice two-page color-photo ad with boaters and swimmers; Nice two-page color-photo ad for Ford cars features the Edsel and others in a water scene; Whitman's chocolates; GMAC - with color photo of reluctant kids dancing; Mayo Spruce ad features photo of Lew Burdette of the Milwaukee Braves with his son, Lewis Kent Burdette; Hilton Hotels - with color illustration of their Havana, Cuba property; Eaton Manufacturing photo-illustrated ad features George D. Williams, General Superintendant, T.L. James & Company, Inc, Ruston, LA; Photo of Bil Sharman in ad for Spalding basketballs; Acme Spring Co. of Connecticutt is featured in a GM photo/text ad; Page & Shaw chocolates; Color photo of Saratoga 2-door hardtop and Saks Fifth Ave. fashion featured in color photo ad inside back cover; Lucky Strike ad on back cover features home movies. Somewhat above-average wear. Bits of writing on back cover. A sound vintage copy.; Magazine; Folio - over 12" - 15" tall; The Saturday Evening Post, March 29, 1958 Brothers' Quarrel; Man Trap; Gigolo. Articles: Religious Revolution on the Campus; The Land That Time Forgot - Part II - Stronghold of the Kukukuku; Baseball's Oldest Youngster - Jack Sanford; They Believed I Wa. Fair .

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BLATTY WILLIAM PETER

L'EXORCISTE.

FRANCE LOISIRS / LAFFONT, 1975. 1975. In-8. Relié. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 355 pages.. Avec Jaquette. . . Classification Dewey : 840-Littératures des langues romanes. Littérature française. .

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Book number: R240030089

Catalogue: LETTRES