May 05, 2016 - Sale 2413

Sale 2413 - Lot 24

Price Realized: $ 358
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
"BUCKY" ACKNOWLEDGES THE ACHIEVEMENT OF THE GEODESIC DOME (ARCHITECTS.) FULLER, BUCKMINSTER. 4D Time Clock. Signed and Inscribed, twice (in full and "BF"), in green ink, on the front free endpaper. 4to, printed wrappers, some wear and scattered soiling. Albuquerque, (1972); inscription: Np, 1 February 1974

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"Buckminster Fuller / Feb 1 1974 / 47 years after / I wrote and privately / published 4D / that there are now / more than 100,000 / geodesic domes installed / in most of the countries / around the world, ringing / the arctic as radomes, exactly covering the South Pole / of our planet Earth as the / 'Project Deep Freeze' buildings, / as Eskimo igloos, as weather / radome atop Mt. Fuji in Japan / as native homes in Bali and / particular[ly] as homes of young / people all around Earth seems to / realize the thoughts herein expressed / in 1927-29 BF."