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FIRST EDITION OF THE DAY OF THE JACKAL, INSCRIBED BY FREDERICK FORSYTH

FORSYTH, Frederick. The Day of the Jackal. London: Hutchinson of London, (1971). Octavo, original red cloth, original dust jacket.

First edition of Forsyth’s acclaimed first novel, inscribed by the author on the half title, “For Edward Milward-Oliver, with all my best wishes, Frederick Forsyth, 10.9.80.”

Winner of the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Novel, Forsyth’s first thriller “makes such comparablebooks that The Manchurian Candidateand The Spy Who Came In From TheCold seems like Hardy Boy mysteries” (New York Times). “Unlike many authors, Forsyth hadn’t even considered being a writer saying that ‘the tumble from journalism into novel writing was entirely coincidental. It happened simply because I came back from Africa where I had been a war correspondent for two years and with no projects on my plate I thought I’d write a novel which turned out to be The Day of the Jackal. I didn’t realize as I wrote it that it was going to be this big blockbuster which would change my life.’ He wrote it in just 35 days, a feat he describes as something ‘not quite so crazy when you think of twelve pages a day, times that by thirty-five and there you go, there’s your novel” (BBC). This copy inscribed to Edward Milward-Oliver, bibliographer of spy fiction author Len Deighton.

Light offsetting to free endpapers, as virtually always. Dust jacket bright and fine. A fine copy, inscribed by the author.