Book #24517

Genes, Girls And Gamow: After The Double Helix - 1st US Edition/1st Printing

James D. Watson
Book #24517 Genes, Girls And Gamow: After The Double Helix - 1st US Edition/1st Printing. James D. Watson.
Genes, Girls And Gamow: After The Double Helix - 1st US Edition/1st Printing

Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket
Edition: First US Edition; First Printing
Publisher: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2001.
ISBN: 0375412832

A handsome first edition/first printing in Fine condition in alike dust-jacket, signed and inscribed by James D. Watson directly on the title page.

This memoir picks up where Watson's book The Double Helix finishes - in 1953 just after the announcement of the discovery of the structure of DNA, an historic achievement that won both Watson and Francis Crick the Nobel Prize. Watson's diary-like entries show him adjusting to his new-found fame, experimenting with the role of RNA in biology and falling in love. Included are copies of hand-written letters from Russian theoretician George Gamow; 8vo; xxx, 259, [45] pages; Signed by Author.

Price: $130.00

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