1st Edition. signed by the author. 1st Edition.
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 to 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 dust wrapper – 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 dust wrapper. A spectacular copy of this much sought after book in a fine custom fitted slipcase.
The Teachings of Don Juan by Carlos Castaneda, Signed 1st Edition
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Wars I Have Seen by Gertrude Stein, Signed 1st Edition
$11,750.001st Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Author. [Beaton, Cecil] Stein, Gertrude. WARS I HAVE SEEN. Signed. London: Batsford, 1945. “A nice war is a war where everybody who is heroic is a hero, and everybody more or less is a hero in a nice war”. First Edition. 8vo., 191pp. Blue cloth stamped darker blue title to spine. A near fine copy in a superb, bright panorama dust wrapper illustrated by Cecil Beaton. [Bookseller’s sticker at the top of the inside flap].
Inscribed in a later hand by Stein in blue fountain pen at the bottom of her Cecil Beaton frontis. portrait, to John James, an American journalist living in France to whom she inscribed a number of books: “To John James who says Ma”am so ? from Kentucky / Always / Gertrude Stein / May / 46″. Stein lived until July of 1946. Probably the toughest Stein Item to find signed & virtually impossible to find as a Presentation Copy.
An extremely good example. In “Wars I Have Seen” (1945), her memoir of the Second World War, Gertrude Stein writes of the remarkable kindness of a young Frenchman named Paul Genin, the owner of a silk factory in Lyons and a country neighbor, who came to her after America entered the war and asked if she needed money. She did – the funds from America on which she and Alice B. Toklas depended no longer arrived – and he offered her a matching monthly stipend. Stein and Toklas lived on Genin’s kindness for six months, after which Stein sold a Cézanne (“quite quietly to some one who came to see me”) and no longer needed money. “And so I thanked Paul Genin and paid him back and he said if you ever need me just tell me, and that was that.” -
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Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand, 1st Edition 1st Issue
$2,400.00First edition, first issue of Ayn Rand’s *Atlas Shrugged*, featuring the iconic Salter-designed dust jacket in vibrant, rich hues and housed in a custom TBCL clamshell case. A near fine copy with minor conservation, this rare literary and design masterpiece is a cornerstone for collectors.
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