The Mansion

US Random House, New York, 1959 is the true first of this text — the closing volume of the Snopes trilogy, after The Hamlet (1940) and The Town (1957). The first English edition followed from Chatto & Windus (London) in 1961, two years later, in red cloth lettered in gilt and set to 399 pp.; it has no precedence claim and is collected only as the first English edition. Within the Random House publication two issues are collected: the 500-copy signed limited and the trade first printing, the latter being the standard collector's copy in jacket. The census claim (US Random House 1959 first, UK Chatto & Windus 1961) is confirmed as stated.