Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values.

PIRSIG, Robert M.

Item Number: 4086

New York: William Morrow & Company, 1974.

First edition of the author’s ground breaking work. Octavo, black boards with titles to the spine in silver. Signed by the author on the front endpage. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. A sharp copy of an important book.

An "enormously influential journey of self-discovery permeated by philosophical discussion, and startlingly original and disturbing imagery, based on an autobiographical account of a journey across the USA on a motorbike undertaken with his son in 1968; the shifts between narrative, analogy, and philosophical meditation have prompted several critics to see this work as a latter-day Moby-Dick" (Stringer, 532).