The Double Helix. A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA.
New York: Atheneum, 1968. Third Printing. Hardcover. SIGNED by the author. The author's 'version of how the structure of DNA was discovered' and the creative process. "The interplay of ideas, temperaments, and circumstances was an especially fortuitous one, since the result was something that, in Watson's words, was too pretty not to be true: the double helix." The Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology was awarded to Francis H.C.Crick, James D. Watson, and Maurice H.F. Wilkins for this discovery.
8vo, blue cloth, gilt title on spine, embossed on front, xvi, 226pp, (11), original dj in protective mylar. Dj red with white and black text on front and spine. Cloth spine foot slt. sunned, otherwise fine. Fine. Item #27427
Price: $750.00