R. Buckminister Fuller.
 
Southern Illinois University Press: 1969. First edition. Hardcover in a jacket. Octavo. Some rubbing both on the spine and along the jacket cover close to the spine. Foxing on the top edge of the text block and a little on the boards beside the spine. Boards a little bowed outward. 143 pages. Very good. Signed. 
 
Operating Manual is Fuller's comprehensive statement on homo sapiens potentia. Instead of being displaced by techno-specialists planning our wars and mechanized poverty (Fuller calls them "the Great Pirates"), despite our slowness to grasp the ideas we most need, Fuller believes human beings can achieve a cosmic destiny: prosperity for all by keeping the totality of our whole being in mind. How? He takes the reader through the steps that will lead this mind to master matter. 
 
"Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less."