First edition of the classic firsthand account of Watson and Crick's race to prove a theory "too pretty not to be true."
Near fine in a near fine jacket.
Price: $1,250.00
"By mid-November, when Rosy's [Rosalind Franklin's] talk on DNA rolled around, I had learned enough crystallographic argument to follow her lecture."
Readable and gripping, personalities abound in this scientific memoir pages, which sought to recreate Watson's impressions and mindset during the era it describes. Watson's competitiveness, unabashed Nobel ambitions, and personal biases lend urgency and frankness to the narrative, making what might have been a dense technical treatise into an intensely compelling story, and the book is still routinely ranked among the best nonfiction works of the twentieth century.
First printing. New York: Atheneum, 1968. 8.25'' X 5.5''. Original full blue cloth. In original unclipped ($5.95) dust jacket. Bright yellow topstain, red endpapers. xvi, 226, [12] pages. Small chip at lower corner front jacket panel. Touches of rubbing, toning, edgwear. Book has slight lean. Faint thumb soil to fore-edge. Tiny strip of fading to cloth at bottom of spine. Overall bright, clean, and sound.
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