James D Watson Eds (6 results)

Trade PB in white wraps. Condition: Fine unmarked. Updated 2nd edition. Course textbook explores clinical, biological, and psychosocial nature of cancer. 8-1/4 x 11, 463 pp, index, appendix, glossary, references, b/w illus.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Frontispiece, x, 1 leaf, 340 pp; illus. Original cloth, large 8vo. Lower corners of covers slightly bumped, else Near Fine. Festschrift for Max Delbrück. Contributors include Nobel Laureates Delbrück, Beadle, Lwoff, Hershey, Luria, Watson, Dulbecco, and Jerne, as well as Meselson, Stahl, Stent, Benzer, Hotchkiss, Hayes, Wollman, Cairns, Sinsheimer, Maaløe, et al. …

Condition: Fine. Signed Limited Edition. Number 231 of 1,962 copies personally signed by Nobel laureate James D. Watson. Quarto. Bound in brown leather; spine and front board stamped in gold with a stylized double-helix border and geometric frames. Four raised hubbed bands to spine. All edges gilt. Moiré fabric endpapers and a sewn-in satin ribbon page marker. Housed in matching cloth-covered slipcase. Complete with hand-numbered Certificate of Authenticity and Easton Press bookplate laid in. Collector's edition of one of the most influential scientific memoirs of the twentieth century. Published to mark the anniversary of the discovery of the structure of DNA, this deluxe volume expands James Watson's 1968 account with hundreds of personal annotations, historical photographs, and vital newly discovered correspondence from Francis Crick and Rosalind Franklin. Hand-signed by Watson, this remains a cornerstone in the history of science. . Signed. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Frontispiece, x, 340 pp. Original two-toned cloth. Very Good. First Edition. SIGNED BY JAMES D. WATSON (on the title page). This volume was "Dedicated by the authors to Max Delbrück on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday." The contribution by Watson is "Growing Up in the Phage Group" (pp. 239-245). Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. x, 320 pp; illustrations. Original laminated boards. Spine worn, else Very Good. First Edition. SIGNED, TWICE (AND DIFFERENTLY), BY JAMES WATSON TO FRANCIS CRICK. In back, upside down, on the rear flyleaf, Watson has written: "for Francis with the faint hope/ that he will abandon the vertebrate brain/ Jim/ Kyoto ___?/ December 1981". In front on the front flyleaf, Watson has written: "for Francis/ with the mild? hope that/ you might realize that vision and vertebrates/ might be biting off too much/ Jim/ Kyoto ___?/ 1981". With the ink name stamp "Prof. F. H. C. Crick" on the front flyleaf. Acknowledgment of the editors (p. vii): "We thank James D. Watson for proposing the idea of this book to us; year by year, his unfailing support and enthusiasm for the leech neurobiology course has provided an opportunity for contact among investigators working on the leech, for exchanging ideas and jointly developing new techniques.". Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Frontispiece, x, 340 pp. Original cloth. Very Good. First Edition. SIGNED BY MAX DELBRÜCK (on the frontispiece). This volume was "Dedicated by the authors to Max Delbrück on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday." The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1969 was awarded jointly to Max Delbrück, Alfred D. Hershey and Salvador E. Luria "for their discoveries concerning the replication mechanism and the genetic structure of viruses.". Signed by Author(s).…