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

PIRSIG, Robert.

Item Number: 3411

New York: William Morrow and Company, 1974.

First edition. Octavo, original black boards with titles to the spine in silver. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper per the author’s customary practice. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with light shelfwear. A very bright copy.

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).