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Hardcover, full decorative dark gray leather. Brand new copy in factory shrink-wrap. 259 pages. A quality Easton Press production with all the refinements that go to make this a truly fine binding: bound in satin ribbon marker, all edges gilt, raised spine, 22kt gold stamping, smyth-sewn binding, silk moire end-papers, acid free archival paper and full genuine leather binding. The Easton Press published several editions of this title, both signed and unsigned. We belive this is the latter, cira 200-2002, though being a sealed copy it is impossible to say. A ‘memoir’ both emotive and intense, of the author’s search, along with his young colleague Francis Crick, for the discovery of DNA. Geared toward the general reader, albeit with a certain amount of sceintific data, the narrative flows easily and as Watson writes describes -“the way I saw things then, in 1951-1953, the ideas, the people and myself.” A pristine copy, gift quality, new is shrink wrap.