Signed limited tenth anniversary edition, featuring a new introduction by the author, of this wildly successful and enduring philosophical novel.
Fine in near fine or better slipcase.
Price: $1,500.00
"To arrive in the Rocky Mountains by plane would be to see them in one kind of context,as pretty scenery. But to arrive after days of hard travel across the prairies would be to see them in another way, as a goal, a promised land."
A surprise bestseller at the time of its publication, it quickly went through multiple (multiple) printings and has never been out-of-print since. A cult novel mixing Eastern ideas with the Western ideal of a man and his motorcycle, this is an attractive edition of this classic.
First edition thus. New York: William Morrow & Company, 1984. Full title: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values. 8.25'' x 5.5''. Quarter faux grey leather over grey boards. No jacket, as issued. In original slipcase reproducing the front panel of the first edition jacket. Light grey endpapers. [8], 412 pages. Limited edition, one of 1000 numbered copies, this #515. Signed by Pirsig on the front free endpaper. Tiny faint spot of soil to slipcase. Else bright, sharp, tight and sound overall.
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