Thomas Buckminster (18 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. clean covers and text-illustrations-388 pages.

Condition: Good. 1935. Reprint. Unpaginated. This is an ex-Library book. Beige paperback book. Facsimiles No. 8. Ex-Library copy, with expected inserts, stamps and inscriptions. Rough cut pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with creased corners and foxing.Binding has remained firm. Paper cover is lightly rub worn and thumbed with light shelf wear to edges and corners. Light creases to corners and spine. Moderate tanning to spine and edges.

hardcover. Condition: Good. Cover shows minor wear, soiling, and light tanning. Pages are clean.

Softcover. First Edition; First Printing. Book condition is Very Good in wraps. Text is clean and unmarked. Constituted of several essays, including rare pieces by Ralph Nader ("How Can We Prevent Death and Disease on the Job") , R. Buckminster Fuller ("Technology, Wealth and Man") & Thomas S. Szasz ("The Ethics of Addiction"). ; Human Futures; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 180 pages.

Hard cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Paper jacket. The top and bottom edges of the spine is bumped and creased with the bottom corner edges of the cover having a similar condition. Binding is tight and inside is clean and unmarked.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1935 edition of a 1598 title. Cream cover VG, protected in defective opaque dustcover. Pages clean & tight with just very minor foxing.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st edition. Near Fine. 8vo, 112pp, printed wrappers. Includes a discussion with humorist Shelley Berman. Unmarked copy, light outer wear and sunning. Not Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. NEW REVIEW COPY with review slip visible in photo.

St Martin's Press, New York, 2001. Signed by Thomas T.K. Zung on the title page as pictured. First edition, First printing, hardcover book with dust jacket. Book would be near fine save for a quarter inch spot of wear on the bottom rear board at the corner and some moderate bumping to the corners. Otherwise the book is absolutely clean, unmarked and appears very carefully read. The dust jacket is intact and free of any sunny or soiling just moderate edgeware and general signs of handling.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Condition of Hardback book and Dustjacket: As New Buckminster Fuller, inventor, thinker and architect, was one of the best-known Americans of the 20th century. often compared to Leonardo da Vinci and called "the planet's friendly genius," he was the inventor of the geodesic dome, the man who coined the term "spaceship earth" and an educator without parallel. Yet today, most of his books are out of print. To remedy this situation, his longtime friend and architectural partner, Thomas Zung, has compiled a Bucky Fuller reader. This anthology consists of one chapter from each of Fuller's twenty-two books with a new introduction to each chapter written by such notables as Arthur C Clarke, Steve Forbes, Calvin Tomkins, Arthur L Loeb and others. Altogether, this book provides an overview of a remarkable intellectual career and the best possible introduction to the man and his thought. Bucky Fuller was one of the most original thinkers and builders that America has ever produced and this book will make his work available to a new generation. 388pp.

xiv [47]p., original stiff boards. Contains the complete 1598 facsimile edition. (The Shakespeare Association facsimiles, 8).

1935. (Cloth) Near fine. Unpaginated; glassine wrapper. Unopened. Association Facsimile No.8.

Condition: New.

Condition: New. Hardcover in dust jacket. First Printing. No marks or defects.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Octavo. Plain cream papered boards, title to spine, minor bump to head. A little sporadic spotting, otherwise a 'Very Good' copy. Uncommon.

Hard back binding in publisher's original ivory white paper covered boards, maroon title and lettering to the spine. 8vo. 9'' x 6''. Contains [xvi] printed page introduction followed by the unpaginated facsimile. Two small nibbles to the edges of the front cover, light surface soiling to the pale covers, without any ownership markings and in Very Good condition book, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. SHAKESPEARE, William.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. Crumb, Robert and others (illustrator). First Edition. Paperback Original. A collection of writings by key underground authors along with 20 pages of cartoons from the underground press. The front cover has a vertical crease down the centre and a small crease across the top right corner. UK price label on the back cover. Browning to the spine and the covers are also a little browned with a little edge wear but otherwise unmarked. The page edges are browned a little discoloured and the pages are browned. There is a light vertical crease down the centre of the first few pages but they are otherwise unmarked. First printing.

66 pp.; 30.5 x 23.3 cm.; glue bound; black-and-white & color; edition size unknown; unsigned and unnumbered; offset-printed March 1967 issue of Arts Magazine. Cover features image of Buckminster Fuller's photographic 'sketch,' Terra City, part of "Projects for Macrostructures." Contributors include Nicolas Calas, John Lucas, "Making the Scene" by Lil Picard, Laila Damiano, David Rosand, John Bailey, John Lahr, "Films" by Robert Frank, "The Beach Boys" by Mel Bochner, Frederic Tuten, "A Minimal Future: Union-Made" by John Perreault, "Models and Moments" by Dan Graham, Thomas Messer, W. Roger Rearick, "Art as Spectacle" by Dore Ashton, David Raddock, Gordon Brown, Edouard Roditi, "The Art of Suply and Demand" by Jill Johnston, and Herb Aach. Good. Light overall wear to cover and edges. Letter "E" written in ink and light staining on recto. Contents clean and unmarked.