{"product_id":"pirsig-robert-m-zen-and-the-art-of-motorcycle-maintenance-an-enquiry-into-values-1974-4956","title":"Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. An Enquiry into Values.","description":"\u003cbr\u003eLondon: The Bodley Head.. 1974.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch4 class=\"vrb_heading\"\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"vrb_desc\"\u003eFirst UK edition, first printing. 215x15mm. pp. [10], 11-412. Brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Original illustrated dust jacket. Front free endpaper has gift inscription. Some rubbing to extremities and a repaired tear to upper cover of dust jacket and a smaller one to lower cover but otherwise a very good copy of this popular and influential novel which takes a father and son motorbike road trip and mixes in Eastern philosophies, Indigenous American wisdom, ancient Greek thought (one of the characters is called Phaedrus) and countercultural Peyotism - a heady combination that Pirsig called the Metaphysics of Quality.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"vrb_note\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"vrb_prov\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"vrb_biblio\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"PIRSIG, Robert M","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57193336570233,"sku":"4956","price":120.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1484\/0910\/files\/4956_1.jpg?v=1777655511","url":"https:\/\/voewoodrarebooks.com\/products\/pirsig-robert-m-zen-and-the-art-of-motorcycle-maintenance-an-enquiry-into-values-1974-4956","provider":"Voewood Rare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}