Description
For sale: a Rare and Exceptional Tenth Anniversary edition, first printing paperback copy of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values by Robert M. Pirsig. Tenth Anniversary First Printing with no subsequent printing.
The exterior of this paperback edition is in Very Good condition, with clean, illustrated covers with a partial crease, a few marks on page blocks, heavy surface wear, rubbed spots on a slightly concave spine, a tight binding with no spine cracks, heavily rubbed spine ends, heavy edge wear and rounded corners. The interior of the book is also in Near Fine condition with the previous owner’s name and the ghost of an erased price on the first free end paper. No other marks, inscriptions, or other signs of ownership inside. The inside covers and the interior pages are clean and lightly toned, making it an excellent addition to any collection.
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.
Carefully wrapped in bubble wrap and shipped in a manila envelope.
