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Fuller, R. Buckminster. Group of 9 First or Early Edition Books, Some Signed, including: Critical Path (1981, SIGNED by the author and adjuvant on the title page. First edition, first printing. Ghosting to the front endpapers otherwise very fine. Appears unread.) And: Nine Chains to the Moon (1938, First edition, first printing. Older tape stains to the endpapers and DJ flaps. Slight damp marks to the bottom margins of the first 20 pages. Previous owner’s name on front free endpaper and moderate edge wear to the jacket. Still a clean and unmarked copy of the AUTHOR’S FIRST BOOK.) And: Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking (1975, SIGNED, dated (Oct 7, 1975), and personally inscribed by Fuller on the front endpaper. First edition, first printing (stated). Bowing to the spine and some wear and smudging to the book. The unclipped jacket shows moderate wear.) And: Grunch of Giants (1983, First edition (stated), first printing. Photos by Cam Smith with short captions by Fuller. Minor aging to covers otherwise fine.) And: Intuition (1972, First edition (stated), first printing. Very slight margin wear to the unclipped dust jacket. The book remains fine with minimal binder’s glue staining to the inner hinges.) And: I Seem To Be A Verb (1970, Early, and possible first, edition of the mass market paperback. Light creasing to spine but still a very nice copy.) And: Fluid Geography (1946, Likely the first separate imprint of an article from The American Neptune, 1944. A very early work on cartography and the Dymaxion map created by Fuller. Includes a folding frontis plate of the map. Slight aging and minor smudging to the staple bound wraps otherwise near fine. Scarce.) And: Utopia or Oblivion (1967, First appearance of Fuller’s important work. Expanded into a best selling book in 1969. Nine pages of the titled work followed by numerous articles and artwork on the theme of “Utopia”. Staple bound with multi-colored pages. A fine copy. Very scarce.)