Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: an Inquiry Into Values by Robert M Pirsig, First Edition (24 results)

mass_market. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. May have light to moderate shelf wear and/or a remainder mark. Complete. Clean pages.

Softcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. THE CLASSIC BOOK THAT HAS INSPIRED MILLIONSA penetrating examination of how we live and how to live betterFew books transform a generation and then establish themselves as touchstones for the generations that follow. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is one such book. This modern epic of a mans search for meaning became an instant bestseller on publication in 1974, acclaimed as one of the most exciting books in the history of American letters. It continues to inspire millions.A narration of a summer motorcycle trip undertaken by a father and his son, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance becomes a personal and philosophical odyssey into fundamental questions on how to live. The narrator's relationship with his son leads to a powerful self-reckoning; the craft of motorcycle maintenance leads to an austerely beautiful process for reconciling science, religion, and humanism. Resonant with the confusions of existence, this classic is a touching and transcendent book of life.This new edition contains an interview with Pirsig and letters and documents detailing how this extraordinary book came to be.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Third Impression. Third impression hardcover with unclipped dust jacket, in good condition. Personal embossed stamp of Doctor Robert Mark Ritter (RMR) on the title page and his dedication is noted on the FEP. Jacket is marked and sunned. Edges are creased and nicked, including a few small tears. Board edges, corners and spine ends are bumped and rubbed. Page block is lightly tanned and blemished. Boards are clean, binding is sound and pages are clear. LW. Used.

Hard cover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First edition. Jacket yellowed and worn with some tearing on edges and light soiling on back. Spine cocked but pages securely attached. Pencil underlining throughout. As is.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. [2], 412pp, bound in half cloth, with the binding and hinges tight, full number line. The dust jacket shows light edge wear, with notations on the back flap, is NOT price-clipped, and is now housed in a protective mylar cover. The interior pages show profuse markings.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. 0370103386.

Hardcover. Condition: FIRST / VG-. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. number line includes 1. used hardcover in a dust jacket w mylar cover. jacket is very slightly worn about the edges, but with no tears and not price clipped. back hinge is beginning to separate but currently holding, upper 5cm are affected. pages and binding are clean, straight and tight. there are no marks to the text or other serious flaws.

Hardcover. First edition. 21.5 x 14.5 cm. Octavo. 412pp. Black cloth in price clipped dust jacket. First edition, first printing with 1 in numberline. There is an ownership inscription which has been messily covered up with a charcoal (?) pencil. Small chip out of front cover of jacket. Binding still tight and holding. Some smudging to foredges. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket.

Hardcover with dust jacket. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. Dust jacket illustration by John Sewell (illustrator). First British edition. Octavo. Brown cloth. Pp. 412. Near Fine, stain to top edges, light soiling to page ends in Near Fine dust jacket. First impression of the first UK edition, with the iconic Sewell imagery on the dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First edition. 8vo. [12], 11-412, [6] pp. Quarter black cloth over black paper-covered boards, with silver lettering on the spine. Green endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $7.95 on the front dust jacket's flap. Pirsig's masterful tale of his road trip with his son, framed by his ideas of what it is to live the good life. A nice copy of a book that was cheaply made, difficult to find thus. A Very Good book with separation between the backstrip and top textblock (common with this title) and a name and number written on the free front endpaper in a Near Fine dust jacket with light edge wear to the bottom of the spine panel.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression. Octavo, pp 412. Black paper covered hard boards over black cloth spine. In original dust jacket, un-clipped ($7.95). A classic book, written in the first person and describing the narrator's journey across the US by motorcycle with his eleven year old son, woven into numerous philosophical discussions on the pursuit of happiness and how to live. Near Fine condition book, which has a couple of small marks on the top edge, and is in a Near Fine jacket with a little rubbing at the spine ends.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. First Printing. A Fine copy in quarter black cloth, dark grey paper covered boards, green endpapers, in a Fine glossy black, silver and green dustwrapper, price-clipped. Not cocked, textblock square. Clean and unmarked throughout. 412pp. A popular bestseller of the 1970's. Q19691.

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. Spine cocked. Small closed tears on spine heel and top and bottom rear gutter. Light soiling on top rear panel. ; 412 pages.

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition, first printing. Signed by Robert M. Pirsig on the front free endpaper. Bound in publisher's original black paper boards over black spine cloth lettered in silver. Very Good with the typical lean to the binding, light soiling and wear to boards, textblock edge lightly soiled, pages tanned. In a Very Good unclipped dust jacket with rubbing, toning and edge wear, chipping to the spine ends with a small puncture scrape near the top end, a small tape repair to the foot made to the verso, old price-sticker residue to front flap and a few small light stains. The first of Pirsig's books in which he explores his Metaphysics of Quality.

Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First edition, first printing. Presentation copy signed by Robert M. Pirsig on the front free endpaper, inscribed to William Kemsley, founder of and reviewer for Backpacker magazine: "Dear William Kemsley[,] Many thanks for your insightful reading of this book. You've seen its main point-- an effort toward a new mythos-- which other reviewers have curiously overlooked. Robert M Pirsig June 21. 1974." 412 pp. Bound in publisher's original black paper boards over black spine cloth lettered in silver. A Fine copy, unread and bright internally, with textblock slightly sunken, as is typical, in an excellent example of the jacket with a tiny pucker along the front gutter, else Fine. A superior copy of a fragile, cheaply-produced book almost always encountered looking like it was run over by a leaky motorcycle. A classic of modern spirituality, with a very nice inscription.