Description
For sale: a rare and exceptional Book Club edition, early printing hardcover copy of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig with a price-clipped dust jacket protected in a new archival wrap. Book Club Edition unstated, 1974 Wm. Morrow with 1974 is on both copyright and title pages.
The book is in Near Fine condition with bright boards, strong title ink on the spine, clean page blocks, tight binding, mild spine tilt, rolled spine ends, mild edge wear, lightly rubbed corners and the small book club dimple on the rear. The interior of the book is in Near Fine condition with no marks, inscriptions, or other signs of ownership. The rear end paper and the interior pages are clean and bright, making it an excellent addition to any collection.
The dust jacket is in Very Good condition with mild surface wear, heavy edge wear, no price on the front flap and no Book Club imprints or logos. Same size and design as the true first edition.. Looks great in a new Brodart archival wrap.
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.
Ships promptly in a secure mailer with book wrapped in both craft paper and multiple layers of bubble wrap.
