The Deer Park

US G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1955 is the true first and the edition collected — the census claim is correct. Rinehart & Company, Mailer's publisher, had already typeset the book but rejected it on grounds of obscenity and claimed the manuscript voided its contract; no Rinehart edition was published, so despite the proof-stage history there is no earlier issue to collect. The first British edition is Allan Wingate, London, 1957, bound in French blue cloth with the spine stamped in gilt; it follows the US issue and is collected only as the UK first.