No More Secondhand God by Buckminster Fuller 1st Ed., HC 1963 NF/

by R. Buckminster Fuller, Buckminster Fuller

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Author: Buckminster Fuller Title: No More Secondhand God and Other Writings Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press Year: 1963 Edition: First Edition Condition: Near Fine Dust Jacket: Very Good Signed: Signed and inscribed by the author 163pp. Black Boards with white spine and black lettering. Photo frontispiece. Signed and inscribed in black ink, "To Paul from Bucky, Nov. 25, 1966". the book was inscribed to Paul Mann, actor and director of the Paul Mann Actors' Studio. Mann was instrumental in bringing Method Acting to America. Mann and Fuller became friends when Full saw Paul act in "Rainbow Terrace" at Southern Illinois University. The book is bright with a hint of edgewear and offsetting to the rear endpapers. The unclipped pictorial black jacket (original price of $4.00 on the front flap) has light wear to the extremities and minor soiling to the rear panel. in mylar sleeve. "These are prose pieces and prose poem-essays that show the development of the thinking of R. Buckminster Fuiller, the world-famous inventor of the Geodesic Dome. Written over a period of more than twenty years from 1940 to the present-the essays range from an expression of personal philosophy through a tribute to Dr. Salk in which the author gives the basis of his own principles of design, to important new additions to Mr. Fuller's Dymaxion principes." Laid in is a New York Times article dated December 24, 1995 about the similarities and differences of R. Buckminster Fuller and Lewis Mumford.

• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Year: 1963
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good

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