Intuition.

Bookseller Notes

Signed by the author on the flyleaf, and with his typed compliments slip laid in. A collection of poetry informed by the polymath-author's philosophy of 'Synergetics', inspired by his 'seventeen-ton/ Ocean-cruising sloop'.Accompanying the book is a 35pp. typescript draft of the collection's title-poem, with numerous variants to the published version - this is inscribed by Buckminster Fuller at the head, 'To: Jean Shrimpton, In deep gratitude of her thoughtfulness toward me and in admiration of the beauty of her being as unconscious manifest of her metaphysical integrity, Buckminster Fuller, May 20 1971, London'. There is also a photocopy of a TLs sent by Bucky a year earlier to Meriel McCooey of The Sunday Times Magazine, expressing his astonishment that 'I am fascinating to anybody, let alone Jean Shrimpton!', digressing to an assessment of Margot Fonteyn's 'magnificent sex appeal', before enthusing over the possibility of meeting Shrimpton - considering that, 'Tranquility Base on the Moon is now available, but some place aboard our planet Earth may be more convenient'. Whether the Massachusetts-born architect and the English model ever met is unrecorded.