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Lot 332
Sale 1023 - The Library of Jack Charles Davis, Sold to Support Charitable Institutions
May 3, 2022
9:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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700
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Lot Description
WATSON, James Dewey (b.1928). The Double Helix. A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA. New York: Atheneum, 1968.
8vo. Original cloth (a touch of fading to spine ends); unrestored unclipped dust jacket (tiny nick to head of spine, very slight rubbing to a few edges and corners).
FIRST AMERICAN EDITION of the author’s groundbreaking account of the events which led to the discovery of the structure of DNA, for which the author, Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins were awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1962. A FINE COPY.
