first edition
1974 · New York
by Pirsig, Robert M.
New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc, 1974. First edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. A meditation on family, grief, Buddhist practice, and, of course, motorcycles. A Near Fine copy with just a bit of faint spotting to top edge of closed text block and slight fading to cloth at head of spine. In the Near Fine dust jacket, not price-clipped, with edge of dust jacket flaps slightly toned and a chip at head of spine.
"An autobiography of the mind and body, it is on one level the story of a summer month's motorcycle trip taken by the narrator and his eleven-year-old son, from their home in Minnesota to California. While they ride, the narrator delivers to the reader a Chautauqua, 'an old-time series of popular talks intended to edify and entertain"...The Chautauqua covers many topics, from motorcycle maintenance itself through a search for how to life, an inquiry into 'what is best,' to the creation of a philosophical system that reconciles science, religion, and humanism" (dust jacket). Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. (Inventory #: 6735)
"An autobiography of the mind and body, it is on one level the story of a summer month's motorcycle trip taken by the narrator and his eleven-year-old son, from their home in Minnesota to California. While they ride, the narrator delivers to the reader a Chautauqua, 'an old-time series of popular talks intended to edify and entertain"...The Chautauqua covers many topics, from motorcycle maintenance itself through a search for how to life, an inquiry into 'what is best,' to the creation of a philosophical system that reconciles science, religion, and humanism" (dust jacket). Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. (Inventory #: 6735)
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