8vo. 19 Photographic illustrations, 11 diagrams. (Some annotations.) Publisher’s original blue cloth lettered in gilt and blind (some minor rubbing or sunning to extremities); original printed dust jacket (some chipping to head-and-foot of spine and lower top joint, spine sunned).

 

FIRST EDITION, second issue 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.