NMLP P-023433 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

Cover Her Face

P.D. James · Faber and Faber (London) · 1962

The UK Faber edition of 1962 is the true first; the US Scribner edition followed several years later (1966). This was P.D. James's debut novel and the first Adam Dalgliesh book. Genuinely scarce in the original jacket.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-023433 for "Cover Her Face" by P.D. James (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-023433, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).