FS: R. Buckminster Fuller

[Trevor at J. Whirler]

My trade is used and rare children's books, but my personal collection
includes much by and about R. Buckminster Fuller. As I buy Fuller titles,
I 'trade up' my collection; I replace a later edition with a first
edition, or a non-signed copy with a signed copy. My collection slowly
improves and duplicates go up for sale. If you are a Bucky reader or
collector and would like to be notified when I have books for sale, drop
me a line and I'll add you to my list. And if you have Bucky books for
sale (particularly first editions, signed copies and the like) let me
know!

[#2976] Fuller, R. Buckminster: FORTUNE MAGAZINE FEBRUARY 1940 VOLUME 21
NUMBER 2. Chicago: Time Inc., 1940. 1st ed. Wraps, Folio, 202 pp.
(Photographic illust.) Good: soiling to cover, interior Very Good.
Significant early large-scale publication of Buckminster Fuller, a
consultant to the Fortune editorial staff. Uncollected. A highly
significant early publication by Buckminster Fuller, expanding on his
comprehensivist thinking, universal power grid, and the potential for a
post-war military industry to be re-tooled for global prosperity. Sober,
fact-filled and colorful, Fuller's essay "Industrialization" demonstrated
his ability to focus his talents and make them paletable to the investor
(unlike his previous populist "Nine Chains to the Moon" and the even more
wild predecesor, "4-D"). Bucky (temporarily) sets aside his mile-a-minute
monologue to provide the raw data on US and global resources with the aim
of projecting a path for tomorrow's industrialist. Among the most
important articles Fuller ever published, otherwise uncollected and out of
print. $65.00

[#2975] Fuller, R. Buckminster: LIFE MAGAZINE MARCH 1943. Chicago: Time
Inc., 1943. 1st ed. Wraps, Folio, (Photographic illust.) Very Good: map
complete and uncut, light wear to covers. Two volumes (March 1, Volume 14
Number 9 and March 22, Volume 14 Number 12) featuring first publication of
the Dymaxion Map. The publication of the Dymaxion Map in the March 1st,
1943 issue of LIFE magazine is of great significance in the development of
Buckminster Fuller as both an advanced thinker and a hands-on, everyman
practical problem solver in the public mind. Never before and seldom since
were so many given the chance to actually participate in a Fuller
solution: depicting a spherical world on a flat surface with true scale,
true direction and correct configuration (all at the same time) in a heavy
stock map to cut out and assemble. An artifact of one possible 'post-war
world' that some of us are still waiting for, where maps are designed for
travel and the distribution of goods and services instead of accomodating
political agendas and shifting, imaginary national boundries. This Map and
its publication are mentioned in every biography, large and small, of
Fuller, and rightly so: while Fortune introduced Bucky, LIFE allowed
thousands of readers to join in the Design Science Revolution, if only for
an afternoon of sissors, paste and paper. March 1 features the Map,
explanations, instructions and a particularly 'heroic' photo of Bucky.
March 22 features letters to the editor in responce to the Map. Of the
thousands of articles by and about Buckminster Fuller, this would be
included in anyone's list of the ten most important. Out of print,
uncollected and scarce whole. $75.00

[#2972] [Fuller, R. Buckminster]: NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC JULY 1976 VOLUME 150
NUMBER 1. Washington: National Geographic Society, 1976. 1st ed. Wraps,
8vo, (Photographic illust.) Very Good. Includes "Five Noted Thinkers Speak
About the Future" (Fuller, Asimov and others) with great Bucky photos.
Uncollected essay. $17.50

[#2973] [Fuller, R. Buckminster]: NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC JULY 1976 VOLUME 150
NUMBER 1. Washington: National Geographic Society, 1976. 1st ed. Wraps,
8vo, (Photographic illust.) Very Good. Includes "Five Noted Thinkers Speak
About the Future" (Fuller, Asimov and others) with great Bucky photos.
Uncollected essay. $17.50

[#2974] Fuller, R. Buckminster: POPULAR SCIENCE MAY 1972 VOLUME 200 NUMBER
5. Boulder: Popular Science Publishing, 1972. 1st ed. Wraps, 8vo, 240 pp.
(Photographic illust.) Very Good. Includes "My New Hexa-Pent Dome:
Designed for You to Live In" by Fuller. Otherwise uncollected essay and
schematics. $17.50

[#2969] Fuller, R. Buckminster: THE SATURDAY EVENING POST MARCH 1977
VOLUME 249 NUMBER 2. Indianapolis: Curtis Publishing Company, 1977. 1st
ed. Wraps, 4to, 120 pp. (Photographic illust.) Very Good. Includes "Fifty
Years Ahead of My Time," an otherwise uncollected essay by R. Buckminster
Fuller. $17.50

[#2971] Fuller, R. Buckminster: THINK JANUARY-FEBRUARY 1968 VOLUME 34
NUMBER 1. Armonk: IBM, 1968. 1st ed. Wraps, 8vo, 36 pp. (Photographic
illust.) Very Good. Includes otherwise uncollected essay by Bucky Fuller,
"Why Not Roof Over Our Cities". $17.50

[#2970] [Fuller, R. Buckminster] George Clark: THINK SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER
1964 VOLUME 30 NUMBER 5. Armonk: IBM, 1964. 1st ed. Wraps, 8vo,
(Photographic illust.) Very Good. Incl. "The Large-Sized Thoughts of
Buckminster Fuller" by Clark, vector equilibrium cover, dome and other
photos. $17.50

[#2977] [Fuller, R. Buckminster]: TIME JANUARY 10 1964 VOLUME 83 NUMBER 2.
Chicago: Time Inc., 1964. 1st ed. Wraps, 8vo, 86 pp. (Photographic
illust.) Very Good. Cover illustration by Artzybasheff was Fuller's
favorite image of himself. Includes lengthy otherwise uncollected essay.
$22.50

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