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

PIRSIG, Robert M.

Item Number: 4209

New York: William Morrow & Company, 1974.

First edition of 10th Anniversary editon. Limited to 1,000 signed copies. Octavo, black boards with titles to the spine in silver. Signed by the author on the front endpage. Fine in a fine slipcase.

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).