Zen Art Motorcycle Maintenance by Pirsig Robert, First Edition (45 results)

Softcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. THE CLASSIC BOOK THAT HAS INSPIRED MILLIONSA penetrating examination of how we live and how to live betterFew books transform a generation and then establish themselves as touchstones for the generations that follow. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is one such book. This modern epic of a mans search for meaning became an instant bestseller on publication in 1974, acclaimed as one of the most exciting books in the history of American letters. It continues to inspire millions.A narration of a summer motorcycle trip undertaken by a father and his son, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance becomes a personal and philosophical odyssey into fundamental questions on how to live. The narrator's relationship with his son leads to a powerful self-reckoning; the craft of motorcycle maintenance leads to an austerely beautiful process for reconciling science, religion, and humanism. Resonant with the confusions of existence, this classic is a touching and transcendent book of life.This new edition contains an interview with Pirsig and letters and documents detailing how this extraordinary book came to be.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. This is a VG, unmarked, hardcover first edition, first printing copy in a VG mylar protected DJ with the 7.95 flap price, gray spine. 412 pages. I read this book the first week that it came out, and 50 years later I still get math flashbacks from it. Photos on request.

Softcover. First Edition Thus; First Printing. Near Fine in wraps.

Hard cover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First edition. Jacket yellowed and worn with some tearing on edges and light soiling on back. Spine cocked but pages securely attached. Pencil underlining throughout. As is.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. The Bodley Head London 1974 First Edition UK VG (brown cloth w title in gilt on spine, head and foot of spine sl bmped, edges sl foxed, binding cocked) in VG DW (sl rubbed and worn, sl bumping and chipping to head and foot of spine).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. 0370103386.

Softcover. First Edition Thus; First Printing. Very Good in wraps. Text highlighted throughout.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Some light rubbing and edgewear, spine is cocked forward slightly, DJ has yellowed slightly and has numerous tiny chips and tears. Text has yellowed and binding is no longer tight to spine. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hard Cover. FIRST BRITISH EDITION. Octavo, pp. 412. Publishers' brown cloth with gilt titles to spine in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket. Boards very slightly bruised at corners. Endpapers and textblock edge lightly toned; no annotation or inscriptions. Dust-jacket a little creased to edge, and also lightly toned. A very good copy in like jacket. The first British edition of Pirsig's cult classic book. Many topics are pondered during the author's fictionalised motorcycle journey from Minnesota to California with his son. 'The real cycle you're working on is a cycle called "yourself"'.

Hardcover. First edition. 21.5 x 14.5 cm. Octavo. 412pp. Black cloth in price clipped dust jacket. First edition, first printing with 1 in numberline. There is an ownership inscription which has been messily covered up with a charcoal (?) pencil. Small chip out of front cover of jacket. Binding still tight and holding. Some smudging to foredges. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket.

Hardcover. Stated First Edition, First Printing. 5.5 x 8.5in. 412pp. Publisher's cloth boards. NEAR FINE in Very Good dust jacket protected in a removable archival cover. The book itself shows the a small sticker shadow of the front endpaper, otherwise remains Fine/As New. The dust jacket shows several chips from the edges, price-clipped, otherwise remains bright, colorful, and distinct. As pictured.

Hardcover. First Edition; Ninth Printing. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. Light staining on bottom text block edge. Tape along top of both panels and spine crown.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First UK edition. Publisher's original cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In John Sewell designed dust jacket. Some off-setting to endpapers; jacket a little toned and rubbed to spine ends. A near fine first UK printing of this philosophical travelogue about a father and a son and the art of motorcycle maintenance.

First Edition. Publisher's brown cloth boards with the excellent dust-jacket, price-clipped, but sharp and bright. 412 pages. No old inscriptions or other internal markings. Some very light dusting to top edge of the pages, still a really bright copy. This landmark work is an examination of how we live and a meditation on how to live better, set around the narration of a summer motorcycle trip from Minnesota to California undertaken by a father & his eleven year old son. Book.

Hardcover with dust jacket. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. Dust jacket illustration by John Sewell (illustrator). First British edition. Octavo. Brown cloth. Pp. 412. Near Fine, stain to top edges, light soiling to page ends in Near Fine dust jacket. First impression of the first UK edition, with the iconic Sewell imagery on the dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. William Morrow and Company, New York 1974. First Edition / First Printing. Full numberline on the copyright page. Book Condition: Very Good, light shelf wear, foxing at the edges of the pages. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good, shelf wear, light spots, short tear. Wrapped in a new removable mylar cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Near Fine Copy In Like Jacket. First Edition/First Printing $7.95 On Flap. Excellent Copy Of This Modern Classic.

First edition, first printing. Published by The Bodley Head in London, 1974. This is a near fine copy. The dust wrapper, greatly illustrated by John Sewell, has some slight curling at the top edge, some corner wear and some light surface scratching. There is an area of separation to both spine tips. It has not been price clipped, rightly showing the original £2.95 net price. The boards are free from notable chips and marks, proudly bound in the publisher's brown buckram. The internals are immaculate, as are the text blocks. Overall, this is a near fine copy and free from inscriptions. Rare. It is a work of fictionalized autobiography and is the first of Pirsig's texts in which he explores his concept of Quality.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition and first first printing in very good condition. Water mark to the jacket at the base of the rear panel some loss as well to the base of the front panel. Light foxing to the textblock's edges.

Hard Cover. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: VG. Jacket By John Sewell (illustrator). First U.K. Ediiton, Third Impression. DJ in mylar is NOT price clipped (L 2.95) and has wonderful front cover design by John Sewell with terrific b&w photo of Pirsig on motorcycle on back. Previous owners name/address is written in small print on top corner of ffep. A very nice copy ot this collectible.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First edition. 8vo. [12], 11-412, [6] pp. Quarter black cloth over black paper-covered boards, with silver lettering on the spine. Green endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $7.95 on the front dust jacket's flap. Pirsig's masterful tale of his road trip with his son, framed by his ideas of what it is to live the good life. A nice copy of a book that was cheaply made, difficult to find thus. A Very Good book with separation between the backstrip and top textblock (common with this title) and a name and number written on the free front endpaper in a Near Fine dust jacket with light edge wear to the bottom of the spine panel.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression. Octavo, pp 412. Black paper covered hard boards over black cloth spine. In original dust jacket, un-clipped ($7.95). A classic book, written in the first person and describing the narrator's journey across the US by motorcycle with his eleven year old son, woven into numerous philosophical discussions on the pursuit of happiness and how to live. Near Fine condition book, which has a couple of small marks on the top edge, and is in a Near Fine jacket with a little rubbing at the spine ends.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition and first printing in much better than normally found condition. Slight wear to the jacket and book at the spine ends and corners, otherwise an exceptionally nice copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. First Printing. A Fine copy in quarter black cloth, dark grey paper covered boards, green endpapers, in a Fine glossy black, silver and green dustwrapper, price-clipped. Not cocked, textblock square. Clean and unmarked throughout. 412pp. A popular bestseller of the 1970's. Q19691.

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. Spine cocked. Small closed tears on spine heel and top and bottom rear gutter. Light soiling on top rear panel. ; 412 pages.

PIRSIG, Robert M. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. Advanced Reading Copy preceding the publication of the first edition. New York: William Morrow and Company, 1974. Beige wrappers with "$7.95" and "Pub. Date: 4/15" on front cover. Octavo. 412 pages. One of the most important and influential books written in the past half-century, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance explores deep questions of value, morality, fear, and love while narrating a cross-country motorcycle trip between mother and son. Approximately 4" in tear from spine to title that has been repaired with Archival tape . A very good copy, would be near fine if not for one repaired tear. Textblock tight, pages clean and bright. Scarce.

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Near Fine, Leather Bound. Printed on archival paper with gilded edges. The endsheets are of moire fabric with a silk ribbon page marker. Smyth sewing and concealed muslin joints to ensure the highest quality binding. This book is in full leather with hubbed spines. ; Signed by author on 2nd FEP.

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. AS NEW in shrinkwrap. ; Signed by author on 2nd FEP.

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition, first printing. Signed by Robert M. Pirsig on the front free endpaper. Bound in publisher's original black paper boards over black spine cloth lettered in silver. Very Good with the typical lean to the binding, light soiling and wear to boards, textblock edge lightly soiled, pages tanned. In a Very Good unclipped dust jacket with rubbing, toning and edge wear, chipping to the spine ends with a small puncture scrape near the top end, a small tape repair to the foot made to the verso, old price-sticker residue to front flap and a few small light stains. The first of Pirsig's books in which he explores his Metaphysics of Quality.

Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First edition, first printing. Presentation copy signed by Robert M. Pirsig on the front free endpaper, inscribed to William Kemsley, founder of and reviewer for Backpacker magazine: "Dear William Kemsley[,] Many thanks for your insightful reading of this book. You've seen its main point-- an effort toward a new mythos-- which other reviewers have curiously overlooked. Robert M Pirsig June 21. 1974." 412 pp. Bound in publisher's original black paper boards over black spine cloth lettered in silver. A Fine copy, unread and bright internally, with textblock slightly sunken, as is typical, in an excellent example of the jacket with a tiny pucker along the front gutter, else Fine. A superior copy of a fragile, cheaply-produced book almost always encountered looking like it was run over by a leaky motorcycle. A classic of modern spirituality, with a very nice inscription.