NMLP P-045430 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-19

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

Patrick Suskind · Diogenes Verlag, Zurich · 1985

The first English edition is John E. Woods's translation published by Hamish Hamilton, London, in 1986 (stated 'first UK edition, first printing'; black boards with gilt spine lettering, 186 pp., priced first-issue jacket), issued several months ahead of the first US edition (Alfred A. Knopf, New York, September 1986)

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-045430 for "Perfume: The Story of a Murderer" by Patrick Suskind (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-045430, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).