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Hardcover with dustjacket, 22 cm, 345 pp. Ills.: black and white illustrations. Cond.: goed / good. ISBN: 9781476715490.

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. …