The Day of the Jackal.

FORSYTH, Frederick.

Item Number: 2140

New York: Viking Press, 1971.

First American edition of the author’s first novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Red topstain quite bright, a near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket with some light shelfwear and a small closed tear to the back panel.

The Day of the Jackal is the Edgar award winning novel about a professional assassin contracted to kill Charles de Gaulle, the president of France. A classic suspense thriller. "It is cold at six-forty in the morning on a March day in Paris, and seems even colder when a man is about to be executed by firing squad." (The Day of the Jackal, Frederick Forsyth).