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The Exorcist First print cover

The Exorcist

William Peter Blatty · Harper & Row, 1971 · First print

Market value · Unsigned, near fine
$368

Valued from 39 recorded sales in the last 12 months.

What a copy is worth

ConditionUnsignedSignedInscribedBookplate
Fine$311$593$533$356
Near fine$368$1,983$1,983$310
Very good$313$1,686$1,686$269
Good$205$449$404$269
Fair$196$449$404$269

How to identify this edition

These points tell this edition apart from other printings and editions of The Exorcist.

✓ Copyright page: FIRST EDITION on its own line, under "Published simultaneously in Canada by Fitzhenry & Whiteside Limited, Toronto."

✓ Last page: the full number line 71 72 73 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1, running down to 1, below the "About the Author" text.

✓ Dust jacket: $6.95 at the top right corner of the front flap, and the code 0571 at the bottom right of the same flap.

✓ Jacket back panel: photograph of the author standing at a railing with a cup in his hand, credited to Tippi Hedren along the upper right edge.

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