“The Exorcist” exposed people around the world to the question of evil in a new and terrifying way. Reporters camped out in theater lobbies looking for interviews with moviegoers about their experiences months later, magazines and newspapers were still wrestling with the cultural significance of the film, in an early version of the “think piece.” America dedicated a whole issue to the film and later printed a two-page response by the film’s screenwriter, William Peter Blatty. People waited in line six or seven hours to see “The Exorcist,” then fainted in the theaters, became physically ill, wept, had to leave. But three and a half years before a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, the story of a single mother in Washington, D.C., fighting to save her little girl from the devil created its own cultural phenomenon.
Picture of the first edition title page for The Exorcist.“Star Wars” often gets credit for introducing the concept of the blockbuster to American cinema. Picture of the back dust jacket flap for the first edition of The Exorcist. Picture of the first edition Harper and Row boards for The Exorcist. Picture of the back dust jacket for the first edition of The Exorcist. Picture of dust jacket where original $6.95 price is found for The Exorcist. Picture of the first edition copyright page for The Exorcist. Picture of the 1971 first edition dust jacket for The Exorcist.
The first issue dust jacket back has photo of the author standing outside holding a cup of coffee (photo credit says Tippi Hedren.) Bottom of the front flap has "0571". Boards are red cloth with red cloth spine and silver lettering.
Either point is enough to identify the first edition because only first printings (with full number line) have the FIRST EDITION statement. Pages: 340 Copyright page says FIRST EDITION and there is a full number line "71 72 73 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1" on the last page of the book. First Edition Points and Criteria for The Exorcist
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