Intuition.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc.,, 1972. Lovingly inscribed to a fellow "sailor mathematician" First edition, first printing, presentation copy with a lengthy and affectionate inscription by the author on the half-title to Brooke Maxwell, a key assistant in Fuller's Synergetics Project who helped in the production of this book. The inscription reads: "To Brook, who also participated in the naming and launching of Intuition and as a sailor mathematician has given me major aide in many ways over and above her enormous assist with Synergetics which after another complete reworking and rewriting should be completed in 1972 and published in 1973. With great love, Bucky, May 13 1972". Loosely inserted into the book is a reproduction of a watercolour by R. Winslow of several bunnies in a wildflower field, evidently used by Maxwell as a bookmark. Intuition is an epic poem that expounds on Fuller's concept of Synergetics, his "name for the geometry he advanced based on the patterns of energy that he saw in nature. For Fuller, geometry was a laboratory science with the touch and feel of physical models–not rules out of a textbook. It gains its validity not from classic abstractions but from the results of individual physical experience" (Buckminster Fuller Institute, online). Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in silver, fore edge untrimmed. With dust jacket. Spine cocked, ends and upper corners lightly bumped, extremities a little sunned; jacket with slight loss to head of spine panel, a few nicks and spots of rubbing, tiny chips to spine ends and corners, faint mark on front panel, unclipped: a very good copy in like jacket.