Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth (signed)
Language: English
Published by Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale, 1969
- First Edition
- Signed
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Rural Hours, La Grande, OR, U.S.A.Rural Hours
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Condition: Used - Very good
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Signed by Fuller on the front free endpaper below a tipped-in printed slip that reads: "To a friend, from her grandfather, on the occasion of Alexandra Snyder's sixteenth birthday, November 1, 1969." Uncommon signed. It would seem that Fuller himself pasted in this printed inscription ("to a friend") but we are not sure. The date of the printed inscription suggests that the book was signed in the year of publication. He coined "Spaceship Earth" in this book, which uses the metaphor to look at humanity's past and present, the tension between technological advancement and consumption in the balance of sustainability, on "this superbly designed sphere of almost negligible dimension in the great vastness of space." Fuller was an extremely decorated, polymathic, and popular architect (who popularized the geodesic dome), systems theorist, inventor, futurist, and more, and he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1983, the year he died. Blue boards with a white cloth spine; frontispiece sketch of fuller. Very good or better with trace toning/sunning to top edge and browning from the glue used to tip in the inscription on the half title page, as well as visible through the slip on. Corners sharp and pages clean. In a very good jacket with rubbing and wear to spine ends and corners. More about the book: "R. Buckminster Fuller's Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth, published in 1969, imagines our species as a crew, united by a shared fate, on a tiny spaceship traveling through infinity. It can be read even today as the most intelligent metaphor for thinking about humankind on this planet. Fuller accepted the challenge presented by this metaphor, using his inventions & writings to contribute to the safe operations of Spaceship Earth.". …
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth (signed)
- Author
- Fuller, R. Buckminster
- Publisher
- Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale
- Publication year
- 1969
- Condition
- Very good
- Dust jacket
- Very good
- Signed
- Signed
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 080932461X
- ISBN 13
- 9780809324613
- Edition
- First edition.
- Dimensions
- Octavo
- Seller catalogs
- Ecophilosophy, Environmental History, Sustainability
Rural Hours
La Grande, OR, U.S.A.
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Visit us at www.ruralhours.com. Rural Hours (formerly Wood River Books) specializes in ecology, natural history, nature and science writing, the environment, ecopoetics, contemporary essay, and literary journalism, with a special passion for association copies and notable inscriptions. Our name is an homage to Susan Fenimore Cooper's book Rural Hours (1850), considered the first work of environmental nonfiction by an American woman. The daughter of James Fenimore Cooper, Susan Cooper was also an accomplished watercolorist, and her birds from Rural Hours populate these pages. Her rendering of a "chimney swallow" (now known as a swift) serves as our logo and mascot: sleek and elevated, part sky and part city street. Rural Hours is mainly a project of writer and teacher Nick Neely. Along with a pair of MFA degrees in nonfiction and poetry, Nick has a Master's in Literature and Environment from the University of Nevada, Reno. He has much expertise and years of experience in the field of eco-writing. His first book, Coast Range, was a finalist for John Burroughs Medal for nature writing and his second book, Alta California--about a 12-week trek he made along the California coast--was a Los Angeles Times bestseller. Check out the "Rambles" page for eventual short essays from him on environmental lit, new books, and more. Rural Hours is a young venture, but we aspire to be among the leaders in the field of rare and interesting eco-writing. We believe, emphatically, that environmental literature and its preservation is in the service of the preservation of the world. In addition to helping serious collectors and institutions build their libraries and archives, our goal is to curate a substantial "house collection" of environmental writing for public display on this site and beyond, one that shows the evolution of the genre(s). That will be a perennial work in progress. We hope to draw a deep, explorable map of environmental writing that traces the lineage and connections between authors and artists determined to render and protect the earth, locally and globally. At the same time, we would like to challenge the usual contours of the "environmental literature" canon and promote a more diverse and inclusive array of voices; in that way, our longterm goal is to excavate the past and curate toward the future. Rural Hours also hopes to eventually have an open shop and gallery space, but for now we are only online. You've come to the right the place. Enjoy poking around, and then head out for a walk.…
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