Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
London: The Bodley Head, 1974.
First UK Edition, Second Impression. 412 pp. Brown cloth boards with gilt spine lettering. Clean, tight copy with bright gilt; minor shelf wear to spine ends. Original black and orange dust jacket lightly rubbed at extremities, short closed tear to rear panel, unclipped and well-preserved.
Pirsig’s philosophical road novel follows the fictional tale of the author and his son who travel from Minnesota to California by motorcycle, blending narrative, metaphysics, and memoir into a meditation on reason, quality, and the meaning of life.
An early Bodley Head printing of the book that defined American philosophical fiction. A cornerstone of 1970s countercultural literature. Store case 1.
ISBN: 0370103386
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