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Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Stated second printing, signed and inscribed by Castaneda to Mary Lou Wilcox, former president of the Mycological Society of San Francisco, and her husband George, on the ffep. 8vo, [6], viii, [4], 196pp. Publisher's gray cloth with sliver lettering to spine in green printed jacket. Very good with some rubbing to cloth at spine ends. Jacket good with wear and rubbing to edges and along folds, with some loss along flaps and at spine ends. Toning and rubbing to front and rear panels with some moisture staining to underside. Wonderful association copy of this controversial work, originally published as an anthropology thesis by Castaneda, but later dubbed by critics to be mainly a work of fiction. The book describes Castaneda's lessons with a Yaqui Indian Sorcerer, Don Juan, and their use of various hallucinogens such as Jimson weed and peyote. This copy from the library of ethnobotanist Mary Lou Wilcox, who served as the president of the Mycological Society of San Francisco from 1970-71, shortly after the book was published. Signed copies of this seminal work from Castaneda are uncommon.
Seller: Peruse the Stacks, Gig Harbor, WA, U.S.A.
Price: US$3500.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition of the author's first book. About a fine copy in a good, somewhat worn and stained dust jacket. Presentation copy; inscribed by the author, 'To Bill Howe, with my best wishes for Ômagical time' in Mexico. Carlos Castaneda.' The recipient, a California academic contemporary of Castaneda, stamped his Mexican address on the front jacket flap. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
Seller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc, Newton, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$6250.00 + shipping
Description: 1st Edition. signed by author. 1st Edition. Castaneda, Carlos. THE TEACHINGS OF DON JUAN. A Yaqui Way of Knowledge. Inscribed. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1968. True First Edition of the Author's first book. 8vo, (xii), 196pp. Publisher's medium gray cloth covered boards lettered in gold, green endpapers. Elegantly inscribed in blue fountain pen on the dedication page: "With all the best, Carlos Castaneda". True First edition of Castaneda's very scarce first book & the first book in the Don Juan series. Issued in a small edition [likely 750 - 1250 copies] by a university press, the book was well-read on campus & copies of this, the true 1st [not to be confused with the later Simon & Schuster, 1973 printing] are difficult to find in collectible condition. A seminal 60's book of some great counter-cultural significance through which Don Juan's perception & mastery of "nonordinary reality" opened up the mind of an era to the possibilities of a more mystical & magical existence, linking various themes of spirituality, drugs & metaphysics. A fine fresh exceptional example of this profoundly influential work, in an excellent dustwrapper - the nicest we have seen in years. A spectacular signed copy of this much sought after book in a fine custom fitted slipcase.metaphysics. A fine fresh example of this profoundly influential work, in an excellent dustwrapper - the nicest we have seen in years. A spectacular copy of this much sought after book in a fine custom fitted slipcase.
Seller: TBCL The Book Collector's Library, Montreal, QC, Canada
Castaneda, Carlos. The Teachings of Don Juan. University of California Press, Berkeley, CA, 1968.
Price: US$6500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition, first printing. Signed by the author and inscribed to a previous owner, "To Jaqueline, on the day we climbed from the cellar to the attic and back to the cellar again [signed] Carlos Castaneda / Los Angeles, May 25th 1969." Bound in publisher's dark grey cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Near Fine with faint rubbing to cloth at corners, in Very Good dust jacket with price intact, sunning at and near the spine panel, edge wear with a 1.5-inch closed tear at the head of the front spine fold and light chipping. The author's first account of his encounters with Yaqui shaman Don Juan Matus, published while he was still a grad student by an academic press.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.