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

PIRSIG, Robert.

Item Number: 2087

New York: William Morrow and 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. Text block sagging as usual, else near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Uncommon signed.

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).