Guidebook to Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

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Status: Good. Beginning Edition. Onetime library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, boilerplate status without whatever missing pages.
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Softcover. Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. When Robert Pirsig%u2019s Zen and the Fine art of Motorcycle Maintenance was offset published in 1974, it caused a literary sensation. An entire generation was greatly affected by the story of the narrator, his son, Chris, and their month-long motorcycle odyssey from Minnesota to California. A combination of philosophical speculation and psychological tension, the book is a circuitous story of relationships, values, madness, and, somewhen, enlightenment. Ron Di Santo and Tom Steele have spent years investigating the background and underlying symbolism of Pirsig%u2019s work. Together, and with the approving of Robert Pirsig, they have written a fascinating reference/companion to the original. Guidebook to Zen and the Fine art of Motorcycle Maintenance serves equally a metaphorical backpack of supplies for the reader%u2019s journey through the original work. With the background material, insights, and perspectives the authors provide, Guidebook to Zen and the Art of Motorbike Maintenance is destined to become required reading for new fans of the volume as well as those who have returned to it over the years. Due to age and/or environmental weather, the pages of this book have darkened. Former library book. Ex-Library.
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Condition: Good. 1st ed. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.
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paperback. Condition: Very Expert. Illustrated past Golden Hills Dorsum Encompass Fine art (illustrator). VERY GOOD CONDITION. PAPERBACK, make clean, solid,bright; BLACK TITLES ON Pinkish PAPER COVERS.; 380ps pages; ."Extraordinary story of a man's quest fot truth."father & son on the road story. New Age Edition,31st pt; Thirty-First Press.
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Paperback. Status: NEW. Get-go edition. 275pp. Octavo [20.v]. Paperback. New. From the publisher: "Since it was first published in 1974, Robert Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance has go a modern classic, a beautifully constructed blend of travel narrative and philosophical inquiry that has moved generations of readers. One of those readers was journalistMarkRichardson, who subsequently rediscovering the book at center age, decided to retrace Pirsig'due south journey. Fromthe back of his own motorcycle, Richardson investigates what happened to the reclusive Pirsig, his family, and the people described in the book in the years after its surprising success.".
Hardcover; First Printing. Condition: F. Dust Jacket Condition: F. First Edition. A fine unread first edition in a fine DJ. ;
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Grit Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. 274pp. Book.
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Hardcover. Condition: NEW. First edition. 274pp. Octavo [24.v]. Paperback. New. From the publisher: "Since it was first published in 1974, Robert Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorbike Maintenance has become a modern archetype, a beautifully constructed blend of travel narrative and philosophical inquiry that has moved generations of readers. One of those readers was journalistMarkRichardson, who after rediscovering the book at middle age, decided to retrace Pirsig'southward journey. Fromthe back of his own motorcycle, Richardson investigates what happened to the reclusive Pirsig, his family, and the people described in the volume in the years later on its surprising success.".
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. A clean, unmarked and unclipped copy.
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Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First Australian (pbk). ix, + 274pp., ii-page b/white story road map. Book clean, square. Spine firm. Leaves make clean. Illustrated card wrapper mildly edgeworn, with a soft corner crease. " . . . a bright relate of a journalists heartfelt and adamant journey to reconnect with a honey American classic . . . In following this itinerary over the lonely byways of the American West, Richardson revisits the people and places from 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance', pondering the significant of Pirsigs philosophy and the answers it may offer to the questions in his ain life. Richardsons indomitable reporting too gives new insight into the reclusive writers life, exploring Pirsigs struggle with mental affliction, his unwanted celebrity, and the tragic, brutal murder of his son Chris in 1979. Published to coincide with the fortieth anniversary of Pirsigs original trip, 'Zen and Now' is a stirring meditation on a classic piece of work and a passionate inquiry into the lessons information technology continues to teach usa in the complex and bewildering world we inhabit today." Volume weight approx. 395g. Postage stamp charge will be reduced as this item will postal service under 500g. packed weight. Size: 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall.
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Paperback. Condition: Fine. Start Edition. With a double page map, a fine copy. This book is calorie-free, and postage stamp will be reduced for shipment within Australia. ; 235 ten 155mm; [x], 274 pages.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition.
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Hard cover. Status: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First edition. Jacket yellowed and worn with some tearing on edges and low-cal soiling on dorsum. Spine cocked but pages securely attached. Pencil underlining throughout. As is.
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Hardcover. Status: Used - Very Adept. Dust Jacket Status: Very Practiced. Showtime Edition. Third Printing. A Very Practiced re-create, with slight bumping along the lesser border, and light soiling to the edges of the text block; dust jacket has some edgewear, but is not chipped or torn, nearly Very Good.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Some lite rubbing and edgewear, spine is artsy 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 7�" - 9�" tall.
Hardcover. Condition: Skillful. First Edition. Get-go EDITION. NY: Morrow, 1974. 1st printing with full number line. Underlining in pencil throughout text, former owner's proper name on front end complimentary endpaper, concavity to spine. In Skilful unclipped grit jacket with some edge habiliment. The first appearance of the beloved philosophical book.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Skillful. Grit Jacket Status: Very Good. First Edition. 2nd impression of the offset Great britain edition. Dustwrapper illustration by John Sewell. ***Very good in dark chocolate-brown fabric-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine. Caput and tail of spine slightly creased. Corners sharp. Light reading crease to the spine. Boards just slightly marked. Folio cake edges marked and foxed, mainly at the meridian edge, but not affecting the interior pages. Internally likewise very good with no inscriptions. No creases or tears. Pages make clean. ***In a very skilful colour-illustrated dustwrapper, which has nor been cost-clipped, and retains the original publisher'southward printed cost of �2.95 net. The dustwrapper is correct for the book, having 2nd impression printed on the front flap. The dustwrapper is quite worn at the edges, with some small-scale areas of loss at the top of the front panel, and to a lesser extent at the tiptop of the spine. There is a small closed tear at the top of the forepart panel, about to the spine. Green titles to the spine faded to white as is mutual with this title. [Please encounter scans] ***224mm ten 148mm. 412 pages. ***'This extraordinary, near unclassifiable work has been hailed as one of the most exciting books to come up out of America in recent years. ***On the simplest level, it is the story of a summer month's motorbike trip taken past the narrator with his eleven-year-onetime son from their home in Minnesota to California. While they ride, the narrator delivers to the reader a serial of discourses which range over a multitude of topics, from motorcycle maintenance itself, through a search for how to alive and an enquiry into 'what is best' to a philosophy that tin reconcile science, religion and humanism. ***Just on another, and connecting, level the book is the story of the narrator's visit to the 'forgotten tomb of his past' and his confrontation there with a ghost. The ghost is called Phaedrus and is his old self, a brilliant, questioning man who in his endeavour to brand sense of his life went mad, underwent shock therapy and 'died' - and has now returned. He and his son accept to face that ghost together. He also has to face the fact that his relationship with his son has been deteriorating during the journeying. This is the last trouble to which he finds a reconciliation. ***An Autobiography of the mind and the body, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance takes the reader on a trip - in a literal, emotional and philosophical sense - that is not simply unforgettable only also unlike anything he has previously experienced.' ***'Brilliant and original --- everybody should read it.' [P. J. Kavanagh, Guardian] ***'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is an unforgettable trip'. [Time] Quote and review quotes from inside front and rear of dustwrapper blurb respectively. ***2nd impression of the commencement UK edition, published in the same year every bit the first impression, in its original attractively color-illustrated dustwrapper designed by John Sewell, with faults as described above. A cult classic. An iconic twentieth century literary and philosophical title. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: nosotros volition reduce the P & P accuse where appropriate - delight contact u.s. for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.
Hardcover. Status: Very Good. Dust Jacket Status: Very Good. 1st Edition. Book has tiny bump at lower edge of forepart comprehend, minimal bumping to peak and base of spine o/w very practiced++; Dust jacket is illustrated by John Sewell; is toll clipped, has minimal border creasing o/w very good++; Comes in a clear removable protective encompass. No quibble render if not one thousand% satisfied.
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London : The Bodley Head, 1974. Kickoff U.One thousand. edition. Octavo, silver lettered boards in illustrated dustjacket (total), previous owner'southward name to front complimentary endpaper. slight offsetting to endpapers, pp. 412, internally fine.
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Hardcover. Starting time Edition; First Printing. Book status is Very Expert; with a Very Skillful dust jacket. Slight lean to spine. Rubbing and edge wearable to jacket, including a few small-scale chips to jacket edges. Small-scale, weak smudge to page edges. Stain to jacket at rear panel, does not bear on boards. Binding intact. Text is clean and unmarked. ; eight.twoscore Ten 5.ninety X 1.50 inches; 412 pages.
Hard Encompass. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: VG. Jacket By John Sewell (illustrator). Kickoff U.K. Ediiton, Tertiary Impression. DJ in mylar is NOT cost clipped (L two.95) and has wonderful front comprehend design past John Sewell with terrific b&westward photo of Pirsig on motorcycle on back. Previous owners name/address is written in small print on top corner of ffep. A very squeamish re-create ot this collectible.
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A commencement edition, beginning printing published by The Bodley Head in 1974. A very good book with a couple of small marks to the rear board without inscriptions in a very good unclipped wrapper with a little edgewear. Rare.
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Hardcover. Status: Nigh Fine. Grit Jacket Condition: Slipcase - Very Skillful Plus. 1st Edition. NF // VG+. INK-SIGNED BY Author on ffep. 1st Press of the 1984 edition thus, containing Author's introduction addressing the 1979 murder of his son, one of the fictionalized protagonists. Book is direct, square, tightly and evenly bound, and, except for some faint age mottling at top edge well-nigh the caput, free of markings, other blemishes, and gutter creasing. Except for pocket-sized gentle bump to meridian joint of front lath, Cover is make clean and brilliant, with otherwise precipitous corners and joints, straight headcap, tail, spine, hinges and edges, and boldly legible, crisply distinct solver stamped lettering and design. Slipcase is solid, strong, sturdy, foursquare and make clean (except for some small-scale shelf rubbing on bottom strip), with straight edges, precipitous corners, clear panels and boldly presented championship / Writer front panel. No Grit Jacket, as issued. (Please see Seller images). ISBN 0688002307. ShiroBooks, independent bookseller, takes pride in accurate descriptions, conscientious wrapping and condom shipping. ADDITIONAL Accuse (DUE TO APPROX ii.25# SHIPPING WEIGHT) MAY APPLY IF SHIPPED OUTSIDE CONTINENTAL US; CONTACT SHIROBOOKS PRIOR TO ORDERING or for more than information, details or photos. Signed by Writer(south).
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Grit Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 412 pages. First edition, first printing. Dust jacket design by Paul Bacon. His business relationship of a motorcycle trip across America with his son in 1968. Considered a cult classic mixing Eastern and Western thought. Fine book in a fine dust jacket with the only flaw being a clipped price. A beautiful copy!.
Showtime edition, first press With its total copyright line starting with "ane". Not new just quite fine and bright in like dust jacket with just the slightest hint of having been read. Very handsome copy with clean text throughout. The author's offset book and endorsed by Eric Hoffer and Edward Hoagland. Tipped in an article from the New York Times Book Review past Pirsig titled "An Author and Father Looks Ahead at the Past".
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Hardcover. Signed Express Edition /10th Anniversary / First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Special Signed Tenth Anniversary Edition of Pirsig's modern classic. Number 419 of g numbered and signed copies. 8vo, bound in one-half leather and housed in a paper-thin slipcase. Includes scarce wraparound ring. Issued without a grit jacket. Please NOTE that all our Offset Editions are also First Printings, unless we specifically note otherwise. All our dust jackets are protected in clear mylar covers. First-class fine copy in a fine slipcase with the rare wraparound band. Signed Limited Edition /tenth Anniversary / First Edition Thus.
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hardcover. Status: fine. Dust Jacket Condition: fine. First. 8vo, textile backed boards, d.w. N.Y.: Morrow, 1974. First Edition.
FIRST EDITION. A near fine re-create in a nearly fine dust jacket with a couple minor nicks at edges. Review copy with publisher's slip tipped to front flyleaf.
PIRSIG, Robert 1000. Zen and the Fine art of Motorcycle Maintenance. Avant-garde Reading Copy preceding the publication of the first edition. New York: William Morrow and Visitor, 1974. Beige wrappers with "$7.95" and "Pub. Appointment: 4/fifteen" on forepart comprehend. Octavo. 412 pages. One of the most important and influential books written in the by half-century, Zen and the Fine art of Motorbike Maintenance explores deep questions of value, morality, fear, and love while narrating a cross-country motorcycle trip between female parent and son. Approximately 4" in tear from spine to title that has been repaired with Archival tape . A very good copy, would be nigh fine if non for one repaired tear. Textblock tight, pages make clean and bright. Scarce.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Expert+. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Slight crease to spine, which happens with this championship while sitting on the shelf. Slight browning to edges of jacket and tiny tear to jacket. Signed by Pirsig on front paper. Signed past Writer(s).