Trevor Blake

Bibliographer and collector, keeper of what is described as the largest private collection of works by and about Buckminster Fuller (roughly six tons, built on Joe S. Moore's forty-year archive), and author of the 2017 essay Buckminster Fuller: A Bibliographical Biography/Scenario.

Blake approaches Fuller through provenance and rarity. His Firsts: The Book Collector's Magazine essay narrates Fuller's life through his publications — a "pendulum swing between his life and his work" — pausing on each title to note both its ideas and its collectibility, and closing with a dealer-grade checklist of books by and about Fuller. He writes for the Fuller reader and the Fuller collector at once.

Role in Fuller's orbit

Blake is the corpus's bibliographer: where most writers argue a thesis about Fuller, his organizing question is the material history of Fuller's printed works — making him the best single bridge between the content of Fuller's books and their existence as collectible objects.

See Also

• Buckminster Fuller: A Bibliographical Biography/Scenario (Buckminster Fuller: A Bibliographical Biography/Scenario) — the essay he wrote
• Loretta Lorance (Loretta Lorance) — scholar whose myth-puncturing account Blake singles out as indispensable

Sources

• Buckminster Fuller: A Bibliographical Biography (source reference) — the work attributing authorship