JAMES, P.D.
Cover Her Face.
London: Faber and Faber , 1962.
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"Exactly three months before the killing at Martingale Mrs Maxie gave a dinner party": First Edition of the Author’s First Book Cover Her Face; Lengthily Inscribed by P.D. James
First edition of the author's first book. Octavo, original green cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Signed by the author on the title page with the added words, "Exactly three months before the killing at Martingale Mrs Maxie gave a dinner party." The inscription is the opening line of this novel. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box.
"Cover Her Face was, James has said, written simply to try out her powers in fiction as a preliminary to attempting the novel proper. Its immediate success, however-snapped up at once by the prestigious British publishers Faber and Faber, and well reviewed on publication-caused her to try her hand again at the detective story, putting even more of the novel’s concern with the workings of the human mind, and indeed of the soul, into its pages. Already present in that first attempt were many of the hallmarks of her subsequent writing. There was the fastidious prose, beautifully accurate and not without complex plots Add to these qualities a gift for forward-looking storytelling and, above all, the creation of a detective you like and want to go on liking in Adam Dalgliesh, policeman and plausible poet" (Keating, 40).
Cover Her Face.
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