Critical Path: How Mankind Can Survive
R. Buckminster Fuller
St. Martin’s Press, New York
1981
First edition, first printing
Hardcover volume is excellent: firm, square, and clean with bright cloth and sharp spine lettering. A small prior ownership label is affixed to the title page. Pages are crisp and unmarked throughout. Dust jacket is Good: present and complete with light general wear and a small tear at the front fold, still attractive and well-preserved overall.
Burgundy cloth boards with gilt geometric stamping to the spine and gilt titles. Sturdy sewn binding. Designed by Dennis J. Grastorf. Illustrated with charts, maps, and diagrams integrated throughout the text. Published by St. Martin’s Press as stated on the title and copyright pages. First edition indicated by the full number line. 
Published late in Fuller’s life, Critical Path is one of his most expansive and urgent works—an attempt to synthesize history, technology, economics, and design into a single survival roadmap for humanity. Building on his lifelong philosophy of “doing more with less,” Fuller traces mankind’s technological evolution while arguing that global cooperation and intelligent design are no longer optional, but necessary. A cornerstone text of futurist and systems thinking, and a key late work by one of the twentieth century’s most original minds.
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