Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth (signed)

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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Langue : anglais

Edité par Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale, 1969

080932461X / 9780809324613

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Signed by Fuller on the front free endpaper below a tipped-in printed slip that reads: "To a friend, from her grandfather, on the occasion of Alexandra Snyder's sixteenth birthday, November 1, 1969." Uncommon signed. It would seem that Fuller himself pasted in this printed inscription ("to a friend") but we are not sure. The date of the printed inscription suggests that the book was signed in the year of publication. He coined "Spaceship Earth" in this book, which uses the metaphor to look at humanity's past and present, the tension between technological advancement and consumption in the balance of sustainability, on "this superbly designed sphere of almost negligible dimension in the great vastness of space." Fuller was an extremely decorated, polymathic, and popular architect (who popularized the geodesic dome), systems theorist, inventor, futurist, and more, and he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1983, the year he died. Blue boards with a white cloth spine; frontispiece sketch of fuller. Very good or better with trace toning/sunning to top edge and browning from the glue used to tip in the inscription on the half title page, as well as visible through the slip on. Corners sharp and pages clean. In a very good jacket with rubbing and wear to spine ends and corners. More about the book: "R. Buckminster Fuller's Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth, published in 1969, imagines our species as a crew, united by a shared fate, on a tiny spaceship traveling through infinity. It can be read even today as the most intelligent metaphor for thinking about humankind on this planet. Fuller accepted the challenge presented by this metaphor, using his inventions & writings to contribute to the safe operations of Spaceship Earth.".

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Détails bibliographiques

Titre
Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth (signed)
Auteur
Fuller, R. Buckminster
Éditeur
Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale
Année de publication
1969
État de l'article
Very good
Jaquette
Very good
Signé
Signed
Reliure
Hardcover
Langue
anglais
ISBN à 10 chiffres
080932461X
ISBN à 13 chiffres
9780809324613
Édition
First edition.
Dimensions
Octavo
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Ecophilosophy, Environmental History, Sustainability

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