NMLP P-043204 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-19

The Celestine Prophecy

James Redfield · Satori Publishing (Hoover, Alabama) · 1993

The US self-published Satori Publishing edition (Hoover, Alabama, 1993) is the true first edition; the Warner Books hardcover (New York, March 1994) is the first trade edition and the first hardcover. Both are collected — the Satori for precedence, the Warner as the first properly published appearance. Redfield's own account on celestinevision.com and the Wikipedia infobox both date the Satori issue 1993, though some author bios loosely say he "self-published in 1992"; the imprint itself reads 1993, and that is the date to go by. No non-US or original-language edition precedes: Bantam/Transworld in the UK and all translations followed the Warner text and have no precedence. Warner's own later printings are numbered on the copyright page (copies stating "48th printing" are in circulation) and are first-edition-later-printing, not firsts.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-043204 for "The Celestine Prophecy" by James Redfield (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-043204, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).