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Books and Prints
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FULLER, BUCKMINSTER
Motion Economics. N.p.: annotated by Fuller "Completed May 26, 1943." Similarly annotated "Carbon # 1 of original and five carbons," inscribed "To Mary Jane and Ken, affectionately Bucky/R. Buckminster Fuller/2222 Decatur Place, Washington DC." All annotations are in pink crayon. Original binder, tied at spine. 10 inches (25 cm). 126 pp; 8 pp; with various appendices. * Fuller, Buckminster. No more second-hand God. N.p., July 3, 1940; one of about thirty carbon copies. Self-wraps, stapled. 11 inches (28 cm). 26, 4 pp. Some wear, browning to the cheap paper.
The latter with the original circulation list attached, indicating that this was Henry Luce's copy (i.e. the founding publisher of Time, Life, etc.). No more second-hand God was formally published, (after many revisions) in 1963.
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FULLER, BUCKMINSTER
Motion Economics. N.p.: annotated by Fuller "Completed May 26, 1943." Similarly annotated "Carbon # 1 of original and five carbons," inscribed "To Mary Jane and Ken, affectionately Bucky/R. Buckminster Fuller/2222 Decatur Place, Washington DC." All annotations are in pink crayon. Original binder, tied at spine. 10 inches (25 cm). 126 pp; 8 pp; with various appendices. * Fuller, Buckminster. No more second-hand God. N.p., July 3, 1940; one of about thirty carbon copies. Self-wraps, stapled. 11 inches (28 cm). 26, 4 pp. Some wear, browning to the cheap paper.
The latter with the original circulation list attached, indicating that this was Henry Luce's copy (i.e. the founding publisher of Time, Life, etc.). No more second-hand God was formally published, (after many revisions) in 1963.
Auction: Books and Prints, Nov 3, 2008
