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R. Buckminster Fuller
by McHale, John
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very good +/near fine
- Seller
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Atlanta, Georgia, United States
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About This Item
New York: Prentice-Hall, 1962. First American Edition, 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very good +/near fine. 127p, small quarto. A very good + copy in a near fine jacket. Jacket spine sunned. Cloth along spine and pages are foxed. Inscribed to Jargon Society Founder Jonathan Williams by Fuller on first free end paper, "To Jonathan Williams, with gratitude for his publishing of my epic of industrialization and in friendship. Buckminster Fuller 4/22/1963 London, Eng." The two struck up a friendship in the 1930s at Black Mountain College in North Carolina. Williams published "Untitled Epic Poem on the History of Industrialization as part of the Jargon Press Series in 1962.
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- Bookseller
- Old New York Book Shop
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 50300
- Title
- R. Buckminster Fuller
- Author
- McHale, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good +
- Jacket Condition
- near fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First American Edition, 1st Printing
- Publisher
- Prentice-Hall
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1962
- Bookseller catalogs
- Architecture;
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