The Double Helix (w/Signed Bookplate) Watson, James D. Science,Signed

Bound in blue cloth, stamped in gold in matching dust jacket. This is the third printing of this important book (in the same format and dust jacket as the first printing). Published two months after the first printing. Signed by Mr. Watson on a laid in bookplate). Only flaw is a pencil-eraser sized chip to top of the spine of the dust jacket. xvi, 226 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles. By identifying the structure of DNA, Francis Crick and James Watson revolutionized biochemistry and won a 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, along with Maurice Wilkins . All the time Watson was only twenty-four, a young zoologist hungry to make his mark. His uncompromisingly honest account of the heady days of their thrilling sprint against other world-class researchers to solve one of science's greatest unsolved mysteries gives a dazzlingly clear picture of a world of scientists with great gifts, very human ambitions, and bitter rivalries.