![]() ![]() ![]() With dust jacket.Ī little shaken, spine slightly creased, contents clean. ![]() Original grey cloth-backed red boards, metallic pink lettering on spine and vignette on front cover, top edge red, others untrimmed, red endpapers. Penzler had this copy inscribed by the author alongside a copy of the first edition, which was published in London earlier in the same year.Ī film adaptation of The Day of the Jackal, directed by Fred Zinnemann and starring Edward Fox and Michael Lonsdale, was released in 1973 to great acclaim, winning the BAFTA Award for Best Editing, five additional BAFTA Award nominations including Best Film, three Golden Globe nominations, and one Oscar nomination. The president of Heritage Auctions, upon selling Penzler's library in 2019, described it as "the best and most comprehensive collection in this genre ever assembled" (quoted in Intelligent Collector). Otto Penzler's (b.1942) Mysterious Obsession: Memoirs of a Compulsive Collector (2019) records a lifetime contribution to the field of crime fiction collecting. This is a nice association: Otto Penzler is a notable collector of detective fiction and the owner of New York's Mysterious Press, a publisher of numerous crime and thriller writers including the James Bond novelists John Gardner and Jeffrey Deaver. First US edition, first printing, of the author's first book, inscribed by him on the title page, "For Otto, Sincere regards, Frederick Forsyth, 16/11/99". ![]()
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