American Psycho

TRUE FIRST IS THE US PAPERBACK ORIGINAL — census claim confirmed. Simon & Schuster had the novel under contract for conventional hardcover publication and cancelled roughly three months before release over the book's content; Vintage acquired it and issued it as a Vintage Contemporaries trade paperback original in March 1991, so no American hardcover first edition exists. Picador (London) published the first UK edition — also a paperback — on 26 April 1991, after the Vintage. FIRST-THUS TRAP: Picador issued the first-ever hardback of the novel only in 1998, and a US hardcover appeared from Centipede Press in 2012; both are firsts thus, not first editions, and neither displaces the 1991 Vintage Contemporaries wrapper.