Published by William Morrow & Company, Inc, 1974
ISBN 10: 0688002307 ISBN 13: 9780688002305
Language: English
Seller: Moe's Books, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
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.
Seller: Russell Books, Victoria, BC, Canada
First Edition
mass_market. Condition: Very Good. First Edition.
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Seller: Twice Sold Tales, Ashfield, MA, U.S.A.
First Edition
hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. original 1974 Morrow hard cover - 1st edition 3rd printing - no dust jacket - some staining to closed page edge - slight wear to cover - otherwise biding strong contents clean - enjoy.
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Published by William Morrow & Co, New York., 1974
ISBN 10: 0688002307 ISBN 13: 9780688002305
Language: English
Seller: James Graham, Bookseller, Palm Desert, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. A First Edition, First Printing. Fine and appears unread in a near fine unclipped dust jacket. Light wear to jacket spine ends, rear flap with two creases from former folds.
Published by William Morrow & Company, New York, NY, 1974
ISBN 10: 0688002307 ISBN 13: 9780688002305
Language: English
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 412 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good minus condition dust jacket. Grey spine with black lettering. Dust jacket is wrapped in a mylar covering, price is uncut "$7.95", has mild shelving wear, bending wear along the rear fore corner, and mild age-toning throughout. Boards have mild age-toning along the head and tail edges, mild wear along the edges, indenting along the spine, light bumping along the tail fore corners, and a stain on the rear tail edge. Textblock has pen marks on the front end-page, mild wear along the edges, stains on the tail and fore edges, and light foxing along the head edge. DL consignment. Shelved Room C. 1392837. Special Collections.
Published by William Morrow, New York, 1974
ISBN 10: 0688002307 ISBN 13: 9780688002305
Language: English
Seller: James & Mary Laurie, Booksellers A.B.A.A, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st. Bound in publisher's original quarter black cloth with boards, spine stamped in silver. Book is fine. Dust jacket is fine, with a hint of wear to heel of spine. 5 1/2 x 8 inches. 412 pages.
Published by William Morrow & Company, New York, 1974
ISBN 10: 0688002307 ISBN 13: 9780688002305
Language: English
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
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.
Published by William Morrow & Company, Inc., New York, 1974
ISBN 10: 0688002307 ISBN 13: 9780688002305
Language: English
Seller: Midway Book Store (ABAA), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Hardcover. First edition. 21.5 x 14 cm. 412pp. Black cloth in dust jacket. First printing with number line beginning in 1. Signed by Pirsig with a very early inscription: "Dear Sally and Chad Really good to watch Zen grow with you. This is just the beginning Robert Pirsig Apr 15, 1974": Original price of $7.95 present on front flap. Light toning to the edges of the jacket. Toning to head and tail of cloth spine. The notriously fragile glued binding is still tight and holding but it is coming away at the head. In uncommonly nice condition. Classic semi-autobiographical philosophical novel which explores the concept of quality. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket.
First Edition
hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: No D/J. First Edition. A fair copy. No jacket. Crease to cloth on spine. Slight lean to binding. Small cup mark to front board. paper to inside rear hinge split however binding remains solid. Foxing to end papers and page edges. Small area of staining to ffep.
Seller: Vortex Books, Teddington, MIDDX, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Second printing. Uninscribed. Dust jacket is unclipped, very little wear. Jacket design by John Sewell. (I had a Triumph Trophy at the time, so thought that I should read this. The Ph.D. did not help.).
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First Edition
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.
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing of Pirsig's "inquiry into values," a fictionalized account of his journey by motorcycle with his son from Minnesota to California. A nice copy, with two small stains to the text block and a 1" closed tear and corresponding crease to the front panel of the jacket. Original price of $7.95 is present. About near fine. A tight and square copy.
Published by William Morrow & Company, New York, 1974
Seller: North Books: Used & Rare, St. Louis, MO, U.S.A.
First Edition
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.
Published by Bodley Head, London, 1974
Seller: Long Brothers Fine & Rare Books, ABAA, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
First Edition
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.
Published by William Morrow, New York, 1974
Seller: Vintage Books and Fine Art, Oxford, MD, U.S.A.
First Edition
Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 8vo. A lovely 1st Edition of this 1974 classic philosophical work, which uses the simple art of motorcycle riding and subsequent maintenance as metaphors for how to live life. "The study of the art of motorcycle maintenance is really a miniature study of the art of rationality itself. Working on a motorcycle, working well, caring, is to become part of a process, to achieve an inner piece of mind." Quarter black cloth over grey paper-covered boards. Square, tight binding. Clean interior. Mild age toning to binding edges. Text block edges lightly foxed with a slight bump at the top edge affecting the first few pages. Dust jacket with mild rubbing and edge wear. Presents handsomely in archival mylar.
Published by Morrow, 1974
Seller: Ink, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition
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.
Published by The Bodley Head, London, 1974
Seller: Canio's Books, Sag Harbor, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
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.
Published by William Morrow & Company, Inc, New York, 1974
Seller: Evening Star Books, ABAA/ILAB, Madison, WI, U.S.A.
First Edition
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.
Published by New York: William Morrow, 1974
Seller: Picture This (ABA, ILAB, IVPDA), Sunningdale, United Kingdom
First Edition
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.
Published by Morrow, 1974
Seller: Ink, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition
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.
Published by William Morrow & Company, Inc, New York, 1974
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
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.
Published by The Easton Press, Norfolk, Connecticut, 1999
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Signed limited first edition of one of the most important and influential books written in the past half-century. Octavo, original publisher's full leather with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in five compartments within raised bands, gilt tooling to the front and rear panels, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, silk ribbon bound in. Boldly signed by Robert M. Pirsig on the limitation page. Publishers bookplate to the front free endpaper. In fine condition. "Enormously influential journey of self-discovery permeated by philosophical discussion, and startlingly original and disturbing imagery, based on an autobiographical account of a journey across the USA on a motorbike undertaken with his son in 1968; the shifts between narrative, analogy, and philosophical meditation have prompted several critics to see this work as a latter-day Moby-Dick" (Stringer, 532).
Published by Norwalk: Easton Press,, 2001
First Edition Signed
Hardback. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. A Fine copy in the original black leather, gilt. Signed and with the COA, small format prospectus and publisher's bookplate all loosely inserted. Mint.
Published by Easton Press, Norwalk, Connecticut, 2001
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
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. ; First Easton Press Edition.
Published by William Morrow & Company, New York, 1974
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
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.
Published by William Morrow & Company, New York, 1974
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
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.
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.