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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About the Seller
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- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....