Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values

William Morrow, New York, 1974 is the true first — the United States is the country of first publication and the census claim is confirmed. The Bodley Head, London, 1974 is the first British edition and follows; it is separately collected and is readily told apart by its John Sewell jacket, which shows a romanesque figure seated on a motorcycle with a plant growing from its head, against Paul Bacon's wrench-and-leaves design on the Morrow jacket. Do not accept a Bodley Head copy as the true first.