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. Despite being displaced by techno-specialists planning our wars and mechanized poverty (Fuller calls them "the Great Pirates"), and 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 lead a mind to master matter. 
 
"Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less."