Sunday, May 06, 2012

Frederick Forsyth Cover Gallery

Frederick Forsyth's first novel, The Day of the Jackal, was an international best-seller. I must have read this in the early 1970s, almost certainly a paperback edition borrowed from my Dad. I'm guessing it was the same story for The Odessa File and  The Devil's Alternative. I also remember seeing The Shepherd in Clarks (the main bookshop in Chelmsford) when it came out but after that my memories are a bit patchy. I was still heavily and almost exclusively into science fiction in the 1980s and have only started picking up his latest thrillers in the last year or so.

I can't really add much to that except to say that the movie of The Fourth Protocol was filmed in part locally to Chelmsford and Colchester. Michael Caine can be seen at Colchester railway station. Truth be told, it's the only major film I can think of that was shot locally.

The Day of the Jackal (1971)
Corgi Books 0552-09121-9, 1971, 412pp.
---- [2nd imp.] 1972; [3rd imp.] 1973; [4th imp.] 1973; [5th imp.] 1973; [6th imp.] 1973; [7th imp.] 1973; [8th imp.] 1974; [9th imp.] 1974; [10th imp.] 1974; [11th imp.] 1975; [12th imp.] 1975; [13th imp.] 1975; [14th imp.] 1976; [15th imp.] 1976; [16th imp.] 1977; [17th imp.] 1978; [18th imp.] 1978; [19th imp.] 1979; [20th imp.] 1979; [21st imp.] 1979; [22nd imp.] 1979; [23rd imp.] 1980; [24th imp.] 1980; [25th imp.] 1981; [26th imp.] 1983; [27th imp.] 1984; [28th imp.] 1985; [29th imp.] 1985; [30th imp.] 1987, £2.95.
Arrow Books 0099-55271-X, 1995, 411pp.
---- [10th imp.] nd, £6.99.
Arrow Books 0099-55736-4, 2011.

The Odessa File (1972)
Corgi Books 0552-09436-6, 1973, 316pp.
Arrow Books 0099-55281-7, 1995, 319pp.
---- [14th imp.] nd (2003?), £6.99.
Arrow Books 0099-55983-8, 2011, 422pp.

The Dogs of War (1974)
Corgi Books 0552-10050-1, 1975, 439pp.
Arrow Books 0099-64241-7, 1996, 439pp.
---- [2nd imp.] n.d., £5.99. Cover design by Slatter-Anderson
Arrow Books 0099-55985-4, 2011.


The Shepherd (1975)
Corgi 0552-10244-X, 1976, 123pp, 65p. Cover by Chris Foss

The Devil's Alternative (1979)
Corgi Books 0552-11496-0, 1979, 478pp.
---- [2nd imp.] 1980, £1.50.
Arrow Books 0099-55291-4, 1995, 479pp.
Arrow Books 0099-55982-X, 2011.

The Fourth Protocol (1984)
Corgi Books 0552-12569-5, 1984, 526pp.
---- [2nd imp.] 1984; [3rd imp.] 1985; [4th imp.] 1985;
---- [5th imp.] 1985, £2.95, MTI.  Cover photograph by Bob Penn
__* Cover gives ISBN as 0442-13195-4 (re-cover?)
---- [6th imp.] 1987; [7th imp.] 1988; [8th imp.] 1988, £3.99.
Arrow Books 0099-64261-1, 1996, 443pp.
Arrow Books 0099-55984-6, 2011.

The Negotiator (1989)
Corgi Books 0552-13475-0, 1989,
---- [23rd imp.] nd, £7.99. Cover by Larry Rostant

The Deceiver (1991)
Corgi Books 0552-13823-1, 1992, 476pp, £4.99.
---- [2nd imp.] 1992

The Fist of God (1994)
Corgi Books 0552-13990-4, 1994, 623pp. Cover by Bill Gregory
---- [2nd imp.] 1995

Icon (1996)
Corgi Books 0552-13991-2, 1996, 540pp, £5.99. Cover design by Slatter-Anderson
---- [2nd imp.] 1997; [3rd imp.] 1997

The Phantom of Manhattan (1999)
Corgi Books 0552-14719-2, 2000
---- [2nd imp.] n.d., 251pp, £5.99. Cover photo by Photonica

Avenger (2003)
Corgi Books 978-0552- 15044-6, 2004, 430pp
---- [16th imp.] nd, £7.99. Cover by Larry Rostant

The Afghan (2006)
Corgi Books 978-0552-15504-5, 2007, 462pp, £6.99. Cover by Daniel Brunner/des. Stephen Mulcahey/TW

The Cobra (2010)
Corgi Books 978-0552-15990-6, 2011, 446pp, £7.99. Cover des. & illus. by Stephen Mulcahey/TW

The Kill List (2013)
Corgi Books 978-0552-16932-5, 2014, 394pp, £7.99. Cover design by Stephen Mulcahey/Alamy

The Fox (2018)
Corgi Books 978-0552-17578-4, 2019, 367pp, £8.99. Cover design by mulcaheydesign.com


COLLECTIONS

No Comebacks: Collected Short Stories (1982)
Corgi Books 0552-12140-1, 1982, 331pp, £1.95.
---- [2nd imp.] 1983

The Veteran and Other Stories (2001)
Corgi Books 978-0552-14923-5, 2002, 461pp
---- [29th imp.] nd, £7.99. Cover by Larry Rostant

NON-FICTION

The Biafra Story (1969)

Emeka (1982)

OTHERS

Great Flying Stories (1991) edited by Forsyth

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