Ideas Integrities Spontaneous Autobiographical by Buckminster Fuller (38 results)

Condition: good. Pages are clean with normal wear. May have limited markings & or highlighting within pages & or cover. May have some wear & creases on the cover. The spine may also have minor wear. May not include CD DVD, access code or any other supplemental materials.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1970 3rd paper printing. Spine creased, a bit of rubbing and soil on cover, small fold on back cover, light tanning, else text clean, binding tight.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.85.

PAPERBACK. Condition: VG. THIRD PRINTING.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Good condition with wear and markings.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Third printing. Edited by Robert W. Marks. Beige cloth with pressed cover illustration. Illustrated with B&W photographic plates. Illustrated dust jacket. Tall 8vo. 318 pp incl index. Near Fine. Bright and clean boards. The binding is very tight and the pages are clean. A nearly pristine copy excepting previous owner insriptions penned on half-title and title pages. The DJ is Very Good with some minor wear and small chipping to one corner and to spine, but is now mylar protected. Richard Buckminster "Bucky" Fuller (1895 - 1983) was an American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor. Fuller published more than 30 books (Identities and Integrities is an earlier work), coining or popularizing terms such as "Spaceship Earth", ephemeralization, and synergetic. He also developed numerous inventions, mainly architectural designs, and popularized the widely known geodesic dome. Carbon molecules known as fullerenes were later named by scientists for their structural and mathematical resemblance to geodesic spheres.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Edition Not Stated. Edited by Robert W. Marks. Ex-libris on ffep. Expedited or International shipping may cost more.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good condition. B&W Photographs (illustrator). First Edition, 1st Printing. 318pp. Very good lightly edgeworn dust jacket. Not price clipped $6.95. Prentice Hall representatives card laid in. Book is as described - all defects and marks are noted. A very nice copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: good. 1967, second printing. Yellow cloth, black title on spine. Edges and corners lightly worn w/ slight watermark/discoloration to front board, not effecting pages. Chips and creasing to dust jacket but not price clipped, some fading/sunning to spine.

Hardcover. 318pp., illus. Very good plus condition with text clean & binding tight but lacks dust jacket.

Second printing. 8vo, pp. 318. Index. Illustrated with photographs. Light yellow cloth, blind-stamped on front, black lettering on spine.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 318p Pale yellow cloth, black titles spine Impressed decoration front cloth Spine cloth browned Light marks FEs Illustrated with photographs and drawings, the influences on Fuller and his ideas and plans.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. No Jacket. 318 pages in very good condition. Pages are clean and unmarked with a section of black and white plates in the center of the book. Page edges are lightly smudged and stained. Bound in beige cloth with black titles on the spine. Scuffed, smudged, and worn. SCARCE. 1ST EDITION. VG+/- -. Book.

First edition, first printing, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "To James Nelson Sr. with friendship and gratitude, Buckminster Fuller". The recipient was likely Dr James B. Nelson, a scholar of Christian ethics and an active champion of civil and LGBT rights. Nelson was ordained as clergy in the United Church of Christ. In 1977, Nelson found himself in the national spotlight with the publication of "Homosexuality and the Church" in Christianity and Crisis, in which he made a case for the full acceptance of LGBT persons into the church. He continued to advocate for sexual education and acceptance and argued for a fresh understanding of sexual sin as the "dualistic alienation by which females are kept from claiming their assertiveness and males kept from claiming their vulnerability". His work on human sexuality and ethics helped "set the stage for a United Church ready to become open and affirming", said John Dorhauer, the UCC's president (quoted by Larkman). In Ideas and Integrities, Fuller describes the revolutionary designs and concepts he has pioneered, including the geodesic dome, the Dymaxion world map, 4-D house, and 4-D automobile. He sets forth ideas for the world of the future, ideas which inspired the work of USCO and Stewart Brand. Connie Larkmen, obituary for James Nelson in Christian Century, 11 Nov. 2025; James Nelson, "Reuniting Sexuality and Spirituality", Christian Century, 25 Feb. 1987, pp. 187-90. Octavo. With 32 pp. of black and white photographic illustrations. Original yellow cloth, spine lettered in black, geodesic design in blind on front cover, black endpapers. With dust jacket. Spine and edges of covers slightly sunned, pale damp stain to head of spine and top edge of book block; jacket unclipped, edges worn, loss to top edges, large tape repairs to verso: a very good copy in good jacket.