Zen Art Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig, First Edition (35 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 7th printing; dj w/unclipped price, in mylar; 418 clean, unmarked pages Size: 8 Vo.

Wraps. 1st edition thus. 1st ed thus, octavo, wraps, pp xiv, 436. Very good condition. 25th anniversary edition, with new introduction by the author and a reader's guide.

Soft cover. Condition: As New. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Published In 2004 : 1st. Paperback Edition : 1st. Printing : Full Printing Numbers Listed , 1 - 10 : Vintage Books : 40th. Anniversary Edition : This Copy Is In Lovely Condition : Just A Light Spine Crease + A Very Small Bottom Corner Crease To The Back Cover : Otherwise , As New Throughout : Still Reasonably Crisp & Tight , With No Inscriptions : Good Solid Binding With Bright Clear Text : Overall , A Very Nice Book :

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Appears to be circa 1990's given retail price on flap. In black paper covered boards and black spine cloth with silver type. Top corners bumped/split and wear to spine ends. Some spotting to top page ends and small stain/scuff to front page ends. Small tear to bottom of one page and some moisture ripple to bottoms of a few dozen pages, perhaps from reading ith wet fingers. Jacket is unclipped ($23.95)with edgewear, nicks at spine ends and some lamination lift to edges. 8th Printing.

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.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. FIRST EDITION. 1974 Bodley Head hardcover 2nd printing. Some reading wear, a little foxing, small tear to edge of dustjacket else good condition.

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.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Some light rubbing and edgewear, spine is cocked forward slightly, DJ has yellowed slightly and has numerous tiny chips and tears. Text has yellowed and binding is no longer tight to spine. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. First edition. 21.5 x 14.5 cm. Octavo. 412pp. Black cloth in price clipped dust jacket. First edition, first printing with 1 in numberline. There is an ownership inscription which has been messily covered up with a charcoal (?) pencil. Small chip out of front cover of jacket. Binding still tight and holding. Some smudging to foredges. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardcover (first edition, first printing) in very good condition, with good jacket. Faint scores and edgewear to the jacket. Small scuff and tear to the jacket spine laminate; spine ends nicked and peeling. Minor wear to parts of the hardcover. A few lightly creased page corners. The binding is sound and all text is clear. CM. Used.

London : The Bodley Head, 1974. First U.K. edition. Octavo, silver lettered boards in illustrated dustjacket (full), previous owner's name to front free endpaper. slight offsetting to endpapers, pp. 412, internally fine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. William Morrow and Company, New York 1974. First Edition / First Printing. Full numberline on the copyright page. Book Condition: Very Good, light shelf wear, foxing at the edges of the pages. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good, shelf wear, light spots, short tear. Wrapped in a new removable mylar cover.

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.

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Book condition is Very Good; with a Very Good dust jacket. Slight lean to spine. Rubbing and edge wear to jacket, including a few small chips to jacket edges. Small, weak smudge to page edges. Stain to jacket at rear panel, does not affect boards. Binding intact. Text is clean and unmarked. ; 8.40 X 5.90 X 1.50 inches; 412 pages.

First Edition. Publisher's brown cloth boards with the excellent dust-jacket, price-clipped, but sharp and bright. 412 pages. No old inscriptions or other internal markings. Some very light dusting to top edge of the pages, still a really bright copy. This landmark work is an examination of how we live and a meditation on how to live better, set around the narration of a summer motorcycle trip from Minnesota to California undertaken by a father & his eleven year old son. Book.

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.

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.

First edition, first printing. Published by The Bodley Head in London, 1974. This is a near fine copy. The dust wrapper, greatly illustrated by John Sewell, has some slight curling at the top edge, some corner wear and some light surface scratching. There is an area of separation to both spine tips. It has not been price clipped, rightly showing the original £2.95 net price. The boards are free from notable chips and marks, proudly bound in the publisher's brown buckram. The internals are immaculate, as are the text blocks. Overall, this is a near fine copy and free from inscriptions. Rare. It is a work of fictionalized autobiography and is the first of Pirsig's texts in which he explores his concept of Quality.

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.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. A First Edition, First Printing. Near fine and appears unread in a near fine unclipped dust jacket. Very light wear to jacket edges.

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.

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.

Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First edition, first printing. Signed by Robert M. Pirsig on the front free endpaper and inscribed in the year of publication, "Dear Jeff Gould, This is really a day in a lifetime. Hope you enjoy it. [signed] Robert M. Pirsig / Apr 15, 1974". Bound in publisher's original black paper boards over black spine cloth lettered in silver. Near Fine with the usual lean to binding, abrasion to rear cover, textblock sunken and lightly worn at edges. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light wear and a few light scratches, light stripe of offsetting across rear panel. The first of Pirsig's books in which he explores his Metaphysics of Quality.