Being-in-Dreaming [signed Presentation to Oliver Stone]

San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco [HarperCollins], 1991. First Edition . Cloth-backed Paper-covered Bds. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. New York: Harper-Collins, 1991. First Edition / First Printing. Signed by Donner in presentation to noted cinema director Oliver Stone; very strong provenance on this, of course. Octavo, 303 pp., charcoal cloth and parchment paper boards, pictorial jacket as shown in scan. Fine/Fine, As New. See scans. Jacket is in a protective acetate jacket. A unique presentation copy of the first edition, first printing of Florinda Donner's mesmerizing sequel to Carlos Castaneda's brilliant and uncategorizable series of novels about his experiences with Don Juan, the Yaqui Indian sorcerer, a literary sequence itself primally original and defiant of definition, dealing at once with magic, anthropology, spiritualism, drugs, philosophy, and whatever the term might be for what one does when one goes beyond zen in the course of self (and universal) realization. More of the same, with a nice twist in style and immediate subject, in Being-In-Dreaming. Donner is a long-term colleague of Castaneda's who first connected with him when they studied together at UCLA. After writing The Witch's Dream and Shabono, she took the next step with Being-In-Dreaming. From the jacket: "Florinda Donner-Grau, the longtime colleague and fellow dream-traveler of Carlos Castaneda, takes us back some twenty years to offer a riveting autobiographical account of her halting, sometimes unwilling, often bewildering initiation into the world of being-in-dreaming, where dreams and reality become difficult to distinguish... By slipping from one identity to another and engineering bizarre and serendipitous encounters, Castaneda and his circle upset all of Donner-Grau's assumptions about time, space, and existence while questioning all her notions of femininity." As Stone's presentation copy, unique and of course not replaceable. See scans. L14n