Fuller (Richard Buckminster) Nine Chains to the Moon, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author "To Bob Cerny, with whom it has been my privilege and pleasure to work. In the emergent integration of the air ?concourses Bob Cerny’s architecture emerges as the pinnacle of land ?markers of the airport of upper Mississippi, and his students are testimony to his competent judgement of our moment in history, R. Buckminster Fuller" to half-title, dated "11/22/1955", diagrams, one folding chart at end only (of 2), some insect damage to lower-margin of final c.15 leaves and rear free endpapers neatly repaired, very light browning to margins, original metallic bronze cloth, little rubbed, slightly heavier to lower cover with few light scratches, 8vo, Philadelphia, New York, London, Toronto, J.B. Lippincott Company, 1938.

⁂ Fuller's overview of technological history, inscribed by the author to fellow architect Robert George Cerny. Cerny was a modernist architect based in Minneapolis and St. Paul. Among his most prominent designs was the 1950s Gateway Center in Minneapolis, one of the largest mid-century 'urban renewal' projects.