Sayers (Dorothy L.) Lord Peter Views the Body, first edition, browning to endpapers, 2 ink names to front free endpaper, original black cloth lettered in red on spine, light bumping and slight fraying to spine tips and corners, dust-jacket by E. McKnight Kauffer, priced at 7/6 on spine, very light sunning to spine, light vertical crease to rear panel and lower joint, 2 small nicks to head, a fine example overall, [Cooper & Pike pp. 271-3; Queen's Quorum 76], 8vo, Gollancz, 1928.
⁂ A superb example of the author's first collection of short stories in the striking McKnight Kauffer jacket. We can trace no other example of this work in the dust-jacket at auction or anywhere on the market. Starring Sayers' superb dilettante detective, Lord Peter Wimsey, Lord Peter Views the Body was only the second work of crime fiction to be published by Gollancz.
"Miss Sayers has done more to add literary tone to crime fiction than her contemporaries, and it is to her infinite credit that she attempted to wed the detective story to the legitimate novel of manners with the utmost deliberation - almost, it might be said, with malice aforethought." - Queen's Quorum, p. 82.
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