The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge

University of California Press, Berkeley, 1968 is the true first and the census claim is confirmed — a rare instance of a modern high spot first published by a university press, issued while Castaneda was still a graduate student, in a small run (one dealer estimates 750-1,250 copies, an estimate rather than confirmed data). US only; no UK or original-language edition competes. The Simon & Schuster hardcover of 1973 is the principal trap and is regularly mis-offered as a first; it is a later printing of the text, not the first edition.