Book Designer's PC Copy

The Exorcist [Suntup PC / Book Designer's Copy]

Blatty, William Peter

Publication: [Irving, CA]: Suntup Press, 2021.

Notes: This is a PC copy of the numbered issue, limited to 250 numbered books and a small group of PC (publisher's) copies. This copy is signed on the colophon by William Friedkin, who wrote the introduction to this book and directed the horror film adaptation; Marc Potts, the illustrator; and the book's designer, Michael Russem. This PC copy was given by Paul Suntup to Russem as an acknowledgement of his work.

According to the Suntup website, the numbered edition has "a handmade lapped component case binding constructed from purple and black Japanese cloth covers and purple folded single folio endsheets. It features foil stamped titling at the spine, a white Plike paper collar, flush mounted and wrapped at the head of the book, and is housed in a cigar-style enclosure covered in Japanese cloth. The edition is printed letterpress on Mohawk Superfine and is signed by William Friedkin and Marc Potts. Each copy of this edition is sewn and bound by hand." Bradley Hutchinson of Digital Letterpress in Austin, Texas, printed this book and Anne Covell bound it.

Michael Russem designed and printed innovative fine press books for his own Kat Ran Press for many years; he now runs a design bookstore and gallery near Cambridge, Massachusetts, and he also designs books for many publishers. Among the books he designed for Suntup Press include Blood Meridian, Slaughterhouse-Five, and The Handmaid's Tale.

With seven full-page color illustrations by Tom Bagshaw.

Edition + Condition: A fine copy in a fine clamshell box. Signed by Friedkin, Potts, and Russem on the colophon. This copy has a production flaw: the knife used to trim the top edge of the page block had a nick in the blade that created a small uneven area near the spine. This copy includes the publisher's bookmark for this title and the Suntup logo iron-on patch.

Item No: #364233

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