Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert Pirsig
Signed tenth-anniversary edition of Pirsig’s enormously influential philosophical narrative, issued with a new introduction by the author. First published in 1974, the book transforms a father-and-son motorcycle journey across the American West into an inquiry into technology, consciousness, and Pirsig’s elusive concept of “Quality.” One of 1,000 specially bound copies signed by Pirsig of which this is number 466.
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1984. Quarter black leatherette over dark blue cloth-covered boards, spine lettered in silver; gray endpapers, pp. [8], 412 In the original black publisher’s slipcase with a pictorial label reproducing the wrench-and-leaf design of the first-edition dust jacket. No dust jacket, as issued. A fine copy in a nearly fine slipcase showing the slightest hint of shelfwear.