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Hardcover, royal octavo in black cloth and publisher’s non price-clipped dust-jacket. Holographic paste-down on dust-jacket cover in excellent condition. Bibliographical References, Further Reading list, Index. Copiously illustrated with color and black and white photographs. Stated first edition, first printing with no additional printings listed. Watson, who won a Nobel Prize in 1962 for his contribution to the discovery of the structure of DNA, takes the reader on a fascinating journey from ancient Greece to a nineteenth century German monk’s garden [Gregor Mendel], to the double helix and on to ongoing work sequencing the human genome. No previous ownership marks. A clean, square, fresh and unmarked copy, like new from a private collection. Fine in a fine dust-jacket.