8vo. Original cloth (some minor spotting to text block edges); dust jacket (a few tiny nicks or splits at ends of spine panel, otherwise fine). 

 

FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY WATSON on the title-page: “To John Bott / from / Jim Watson”. Additionally SIGNED BY FRANCIS CRICK below on title-page.  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. Copies signed by both Watson and Crick are rare. A FINE COPY.