BLATTY, William Peter
The Exorcist
London: Royal National Institute for the Blind, 1971
5 vols., unpaginated. Uniform pale green three-quarter stiff paper wrappers, dark blue cloth spines. Title labels and title in Braille to front wrappers. Braille text. A little light general wear to wrappers, but a very well preserved set.
FIRST BRAILLE EDITION. First published in book form by Harper & Row in the US in 1971, and by Blond & Briggs in the UK later the same year. ‘Published by kind permission of the author and of the publishers, Blond & Briggs Limited, 56 Doughty Street, London’. (Title labels) PROBABLY THE ONLY COPY IN EXISTENCE.
During the 1970s it was sometimes the practice of the UK’s Royal National Institute for the Blind to manufacture braille copies of new and popular books if requested by users of their library. This is the likely explanation for the existence of this braille edition of The Exorcist. We can find no record of any other copy either in commerce or in library holdings worldwide. RNIB records are silent on the subject but, like us, the organisation strongly suspects that this version of the novel exists in an edition of precisely one.
(An intriguing aside. During our correspondence with the RNIB while researching this book, we learned that the shelf life of braille books tends to be short: the dimpled text crumples with repeated use – typographical errors in braille books occur after publication as well as before.)
Extremely scarce, and probably unique
BLATTY, William Peter
The Exorcist
London: Royal National Institute for the Blind, 1971
5 vols., unpaginated. Uniform pale green three-quarter stiff paper wrappers, dark blue cloth spines. Title labels and title in Braille to front wrappers. Braille text. A little light general wear to wrappers, but a very well preserved set.
FIRST BRAILLE EDITION. First published in book form by Harper & Row in the US in 1971, and by Blond & Briggs in the UK later the same year. ‘Published by kind permission of the author and of the publishers, Blond & Briggs Limited, 56 Doughty Street, London’. (Title labels) PROBABLY THE ONLY COPY IN EXISTENCE.
During the 1970s it was sometimes the practice of the UK’s Royal National Institute for the Blind to manufacture braille copies of new and popular books if requested by users of their library. This is the likely explanation for the existence of this braille edition of The Exorcist. We can find no record of any other copy either in commerce or in library holdings worldwide. RNIB records are silent on the subject but, like us, the organisation strongly suspects that this version of the novel exists in an edition of precisely one.
(An intriguing aside. During our correspondence with the RNIB while researching this book, we learned that the shelf life of braille books tends to be short: the dimpled text crumples with repeated use – typographical errors in braille books occur after publication as well as before.)
Extremely scarce, and probably unique
