NMLP P-036603 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-19

Whose Body?

Dorothy L. Sayers · Boni & Liveright (New York) · 1923

Precedence point: the US Boni & Liveright edition (1923) precedes the UK T. Fisher Unwin edition (1923); the US is the accepted true world first of the first Lord Peter Wimsey novel, and the UK first is separately collected. The US is generally dated a few months ahead of the UK (even UK dealers note the title 'was first published in the States, in 1923').

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-036603 for "Whose Body?" by Dorothy L. Sayers (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-036603, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).