Buckminster Fuller E J Applewhite (38 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

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

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

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Dust jacket missing. Cover and binding are worn but intact. A reading copy in fair condition. Vintage printing. Re-bound in buckram cloth library binding. Cover stained. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Heavy soiling on the top edge, lighter soiling/foxing on the other edges, slightly sunned along the upper board edges. The dust jacket is price clipped, perhaps some colorless moisture exposure on the lower spine, light edge and surface wear.…

paperback. Condition: Good. Tight and unmarked but in soiled covers top edge toned and foxed. oversized and overweight. Please email for photos. Larger books or sets may require additional shipping charges. Books sent via US Postal.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Very Good condition. Some shelf wear and highlighting (less than 10 pages).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition, so stated. Original ivory cloth. Near Fine. No Dust Jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Second Printing. Very good, tight, clean condition. Jacket in mylar cover. Foxing to closed pages. Text free of marks. Professional book dealer since 1999. All orders are processed promptly and carefully packaged with tracking.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. FIRST EDITION. (Stated "First Printing 1975" on copyright page with no additional printings indicated.) Very Good, light soiling to edges, in a Good+ dust jacket, a little worn and nicked along edges, crease to top of front panel. A decent copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Former owber's blind stamp to the title page, else a sharp copy of the First Printing in a like jacket. ; 1.8 x 9.1 x 6.2 Inches; 592 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Clean & Unmarked. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First printing. A very clean and straight copy in like dust jacket. Unclipped. 876 pp.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Solid paperback. Slight wear to cover. No marks or names inside. Book.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st. Hardcover first edition in very good condition with a mylar wrapped dust jacket.

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Very clean book with sharp corners, excellent covers in purple cloth with gilt Bucky signature, very slight sun fade to lower edge only. Dust jacket showing only very slight edge wear wrapped in mylar protective jacket, text/interior spotless with many color plates, geometric figures extraordinaire. Previous owner's name on front endpaper. …

Hardback. Condition: Fine. First edition, first printing. R. Buckminster Fuller had a wide-ranging, yet logical, imagination that produced everything from architecture to automobiles to poetry and philosophy. He worked as a consultant with NASA for the moon landing and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and served as a professor at universities across the country. But what his actual school of thought was can be incredibly difficult to pin down, not least because he tended to invent his own nomenclature to describe it. Towards the end of his long life he published a two-volume work in which he attempted to explain and sum it all up (with the help of E. J. Applewhite) called "Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking." The first volume came out in 1975. This, "Synergetics 2," was released in 1979. (Even within the copy itself, it seems to have two different subtitles: "Further Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking" appears on the dust jacket but the original subtitlesans "Further"appears on the title page.) As it took more than eighty years of experiments and free-ranging thought, and more than a thousand pages of text, to reach this point, we can't sum up what "Synergetics" is about in a couple of sentences, but here's a starting point: Fuller saw spatial complexity and geometry as the key to all systems and their transformation. That means no component acts in isolation. And by "all systems," Fuller meant ALL systems, not simply the obviously mechanical ones. He included environmental forces, social dynamics, and on and on. He saw the tetrahedron as the simplest model of a system, and then expanded from there. Does it make sense? A lot of serious people thought so, to some degree or another. Read it for yourself to see what you think. Our copy is a first edition, first printing. It is in fine condition, with the only concession to its age being some slight fading along the top edge of the front cover. It is profusely illustrated throughout, mostly in black and white drawings, but with sections of colored prints at the front and the back, along with an appendix of tables. It is bound in dark maroon cloth, with Fuller's signature stamped in gold at the bottom of the front cover. On the spine the title and Fuller's name are stamped in gold but have the look of a dark red label edged in gold, while the publisher's name is stamped in gold in much smaller type at the bottom of the spine. Our copy does NOT have a dust jacket but does not show the wear that might be expected from missing that protection. The pages are in excellent condition, and the binding is firm and tight. Photos are forthcoming or immediately available upon request.…

hardcover. Condition: As New.

hardcover. Condition: Good. Good .Ships From Multiple Locations. book.

paperback. Condition: As New. 1982; New York; red glossy paper covers with white titles; covers are in like new condition; interior clean and unmarked; 8vo - over 7 3/4" to 9 3/4" tall; 876 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Copyright © 1975 by R. Buckminster Fulle. 876 + xxxii pp. A rare, hard-to-find, out-of-print, true collectible gem! Solidly and well bound copy with moderate overall wear and use. Clean text on crisp and bright pages. Very minor and light stains on fore-edge. Relevant newspaper clippings included from previous owner. Dust jacket suffers moderate wear with a few cuts and tears around edges. Over-sized and/ or over weight book; may require additional postage. Please note that large and/ or heavy items may incur extra shipping charge for both domestic and/ or international shipments.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very good+ condition. Very good+ condition (DJ). First Edition. xxxii, 876 pages of text. Hardcover binding with minimal shelfwear including a tiny bump to the top corner of the front board. The price-clipped dustjacket has a few small tears and creases, with minor shelfwear; protected in archival mylar. Signed and inscribed on the half-title page "To [name withheld] Buckminster Fuller Sept 22, 1982". Illustrated. Included is a schedule and information regarding a Symposium held in Santa Fe, NM on the date of the signing of the book, where Fuller was a speaker and in the city of the residence of the recipient of the inscription. The text is clean and unmarked. First edition, first printing. Stated: First printing. Size: Octavo (8vo). Signed by Author(s). Book. …

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