The Day of the Jackal.

FORSYTH, Frederick.

$2,800.00

Item Number: 144699

London: Hutchinson, 1971.

First British edition of the author’s first novel. Octavo, original red cloth. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by the author on the title page, “The Day of the Jackal was over For John sincere best wishes Frederick Forsyth 2015.” Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Tom Simmonds and Trevor Vertigan.

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. “The Day of the Jackal makes such comparable books such as The Manchurian Candidate and The Spy Who Came in from the Cold seem like Hardy Boy mysteries” (The New York Times).