Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth
by R. Buckminster Fuller / Pocket Book Edition, 1970 & 1974
Originally published by Southern Illinois University Press, 1969
Cover art by Gomez
No More Secondhand God (and Other Writings)
by R. Buckminster Fuller / Anchor Books Edition, 1971
Originally published by Southern Illinois University Press, 1963
Cover design by Sydney Butchkes, Cover photograph by Barry Sonnenfeld
Ideas and Integrities: A Spontaneous Autobiographical Disclosure
by Buckminster Fuller, edited by Robert W. Marks / Collier Books, 1974
Originally published by Prentice-Hall, © 1963 by Richard Buckminster Fuller
Utopia or Oblivion: The Prospects for Humanity
by Buckminster Fuller / Bantam Books, 1972
© 1969 by Buckminster Fuller
Buckminster Fuller: At Home in the Universe
by Alden Hatch / Delta Books, 1976
© 1974 by Alden Hatch
I Seem to be a Verb (interior spread)
by R. Buckminster Fuller with Jerome Agel and Quentin Fiore (graphic designer)
Bantam Books, 1970
My objective has been humanity’s comprehensive welfare in the universe, I could have ended up with a pair of flying slippers.
I Seem to be a Verb (interior spread)
by R. Buckminster Fuller with Jerome Agel and Quentin Fiore (graphic designer)
Bantam Books, 1970
The intellectual integrity and infinite order of the universe obviously are vastly greater than man. Man is an invention within it. What one did about this understanding would have to be through design. I decided I must not be a persuader, but a doer.
I Seem to be a Verb
by R. Buckminster Fuller with Jerome Agel and Quentin Fiore (graphic designer)
Bantam Books, 1970
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Last year after getting married my husband and I set out to pare down and jointly reorganize our newly cohabitating book collection. In the process I came across my husband’s small arsenal of somewhat tattered Bucky Fuller (1895–1983) books, a sampling is seen above. These are books authored, co-authored or written about the legendary futurist thinker, engineer, scientist, architect and inventor who has been referred to as ‘a visionary, a prophet, a genius, and a crackpot.’ (Buckminster Fuller: At Home in the Universe, 1974). My husband was fortunate to hear Mr. Fuller speak at the University of Houston a number of years ago. He was then up in years and still going strong.
Discover more Bucky on AQ-V:
–Photo essay, LIFE magazine
–Dymaxion House
Also:
–Buckminster Fuller Institute (BFI)
(Their website is currently down but hopefully will be back up soon.)
Additional editor’s note:
While typing this I am holed up in my shared office with my husband listening to the loud bang, bang, bang of our bedroom being demoed not far away. It will be an interesting 2-3 weeks of messy construction and other projects which may likely interfere with the blogging schedule into next month. I keep hoping things will return to a steady normal but that won’t be quite soon enough.
–Amy
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