Synergetics Explorations Geometry Thinking by Fuller Buckminster (53 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Sound and clean with minor wear to front cover.

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

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 2.08.

Softcover. Condition: Good. First paperback edition. xxxii, 876 p. 24 cm. "Revised illustrations." Paperback. Inscription on first leaf. Light wear. A bit of soiling to lower edge. Old labels on rear. A little soiling to front. Preface and contribution by Arthur L. Loeb. "The Compleat Bucky.".

8Vo Softcover. Condition: Good. 1st Printing. 592p. White pages are unmarked with some b/w illustrations. Gold covers are edge-worn on front with some lifting over exterior lamination. Binding is tight, spine is unbroken with a small closed tear on spine foot.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Printing. Crisp, clean pages except for a pencil ghost on the front free endpaper; no other owners' marks; full cloth hard cover shows some softening at the spine heel and points of surface wear at the corners; unclipped dust jacket has a short crease at the top front, another at the bottom front, and small chips and crimps at spine ends, otherwise well-kept and now protected in a clear sleeve. xxiv, 592pp. incl. index.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good+ condition. Dust Jacket 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.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover with DJ. White cloth with brown label on the spine. Binding good and tight. Maroon DJ with white and gold lettering. DJ has lost a little bit of the sheen of New, but is not torn or worn or crimped in any significant way. Stated First Edition. 876 pages. Full page, handwritten inscription from Fuller on the half-title page (in purple ink), "To D-- F-- whose path of experience is closely akin to my own and has tended to generate the same great and exquisite Questions for both of us and the discovery thereby of some of the eternal cosmic laws. in him I find the most faithful of friends. Buckminster Fuller." Dated April 7, 1975. The previous owner has made business card sized cards with the transcript of the inscription on one side and a facsimile of it on the other; there are 3 of these cards tucks inside. Please email with questions or to request photos. Signed by Author(s).

hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. first printing, as stated. Small quarto (approx. 6 1/4" wide by 9 3/8" tall), maroon cloth covers with gilt facsimile signature on top cover and gilt titles on red background on spine. Small red dot on top edge of book block. xxiv + 592 pages. Includes 16 color plates in front of book, other black and white illustrations throughout. Also includes appendix of tables, and index. Nicked at bottom of front cover. Unclipped dust jacket has light wear at edges, small chip on rear panel top corner. 060299B Science, Technology, Mathematics, Philosophy.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good (Protective cover). First Edition. Cover is in good condition, save for minimal rubbing, some light rippling to length of spine (likely water damage). DJ is unclipped and in good condition, save for minor corner chipping, and edge wear (mostly confined to lower edge of front cover; includes related, small, thin, spidering tears). Text is otherwise tight in binding. Text is clean and free of blemishes throughout, though slight odor from aforementioned potential water damage. No other markings or indications of note. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall.

hardcover. Condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: near fine. first printing, as stated. Small quarto, (approx. 6 1/4" wide by 9 3/8" tall) cream cloth covers, with gilt facsimile signature of Fuller on top cover, and titles in gilt on a brown background on spine. xxxii + 876 pages. Illustrated in black and white. Includes bibliography. Some light browning at edges of covers, else fine. Dust jacket has minor edge wear, tanning at edges, near fine. "This book is his bible -- the distilled wisdom of a lifetime spent contemplating the Universe from angles and directions never before suspected. Its wealth of closely-packed ideas is inexhaustible. It will be a source of endless inspiration and stimulus to those engaged on the most urgent task of our time -- the effort of saving Spaceship Earth from disaster." --Arthur C. Clarke 060299B.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 876 pages in very good condition. Pages are clean and unmarked with black and white illustrations throughout. Page edges are lightly smudged. Bound in beige cloth with gilt titles. Rubbed, smudged, and worn. Creased on the spine. 1ST EDITION. VG/- -. Book.

large PAPERBACK, cover price $12.95, covers curled at corners with light wear, INSCRIBED on half-title page and SIGNED Buckminster Fuller, 6/9/1982 - inscription a bit odd "for my dad" To: Joe Mislan from your son David - seemingly in same hand as the signature - ask for photo. FULLER, R. BUCKMINSTER. Synergetics: explorations in the geometry of thinking. In collaboration with E.J. Applewhite ; preface and contribution by Arthur L. Loeb. New York: Macmillan, 1982, stated First Macmillan paperbacks edition, xxxii, 876pp., . With revised illustrations. - Highly technical and mathematical, not general reading by any means. 9780020653202 ISBN 0020653204.

Hardcover. Stated First Edition, First Printing. 6.25 x 9.5in. xxxii. 876pp. Publisher's cloth boards. NEAR FINE in Near Fine dust jacket protected in a removable archival cover. The book itself shows slight handling of the beige cloth boards, otherwise remains Fine/As New. The dust jacket shows slight shelf rubbing of the topmost of the spine, the front flap with a hint of creasing, otherwise is not price-clipped remaining Fine/As New. As pictured.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Printing. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR at half title page -"To Carl with joy that he is reading Synergetics Buckminster Fuller" . Very Good, lacking the dust jacket, the white cloth and edges showing toning. xxxii, 876 pp., with illustrated end papers. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing of Fuller's magnum opus, being the distillation of his lifelong philosophical explorations. Inscribed by Fuller to the half-title in the year of publication. New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., 1975. Publisher's original cloth; pp. xxxii, 876. Lacking the dust jacket. In near fine condition, showing just traces of shelfwear and handling. Binding sturdy and square, internally clean. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardback. 1st Edition. Clean, tight book but for light dust-soiling edges. In bright, mildly worn dustjacket, bumped at corners. Cloth 8vo. 876pp. Illustrated. "In collaboration with E.J. Applewhite." Preface and contribution by Arthur J. Loeb. First printing, so stated on the copyright page. Inscribed and signed by Fuller on the half-title.

First edition, first printing, with a lengthy and affectionate inscription by the author on the half-title to Brooke Maxwell, who was a key assistant in Fuller's Synergetics Project and helped in the production of this book. The inscription, dated 30 March 1980 and located Andover Massachusetts, remarks on the praise Synergetics has received from a range of scientists, and predicts "we are about to witness academic science having to recognize that Synergetics is nature's most economic and lucid accounting system". "Synergetics, according to E. J. Applewhite, was Fuller's name for the geometry he advanced based on the patterns of energy that he saw in nature. For Fuller, geometry was a laboratory science with the touch and feel of physical modelsnot rules out of a textbook. It gains its validity not from classic abstractions but from the results of individual physical experience" (Buckminster Fuller Institute, online). Octavo. Original dark red cloth, spine lettered in gilt on red ground, ISBN on rear cover in gilt, facsimile author signature on front cover gilt, diagrammatic endpapers. With dust jacket. Foot of spine lightly bumped, boards a little bowed, faint scratch on front cover; trivial creasing to top edge of price-clipped jacket: a near-fine copy in like jacket.