Norman Mailer's The Deer Park A Play by Mailer, Norman - 1967

New York: Dial, 1967. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (24cm). Black cloth boards titled in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 192pp. Faint rubbing to boards; crown nudged, with a bit of sun-fading to upper board edges; Very Good or better. The dustjacket is unclipped (priced $4.50) with edgewear including small chips, a few short tears and rubbing to spine ends; tape repairs to verso; Very Good. Play adapted from Mailer's 1955 novel; The Deer Park premiered Off-Broadway in 1967, directed by Leo Garen and starring Rip Torn, Marsha Mason, Mickey Knox, and Mailer's third wife, Beverley Bentley.

The Dial Press, 1967. Trade Paperback. 152 pages. Unrevised proofs of the adaptation of Mailer's third novel. The play opened off-Broadway in January 1967. Mailer continued to revise the play for the rest of his life, sometimes recruiting others including Joan Didion and her husband John Gregory Dunne. A near fine copy in salmon-colored wrappers (paperback) with white plastic comb binding. White printed sticker seal on bottom edge of both covers broken. Inscribed to noted book collector Don Kaufmann: 'I wish you could have seen it. Norman Mailer.' Kaufmann published one of the first critical studies of Mailer, Norman Mailer: The Countdown (The First Twenty Years). A very scarce Mailer item.