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Title: Seven volumes relating to the discovery of DNA and the scientists behind it, signed by authors or subjects Author: Place: Various places Publisher: Date: Various dates Description: Cloth or boards, 6 with jackets, the other not so issued. First Editions. All are signed by the authors, introducers, or subjects of the books. One is a first U.S. edition, the others are first editions. Provenance: Samuel Hessel. Includes: Olby, Robert. The Path to the Double Helix. Foreword by Francis Crick. Signed by Crick on the title page. 1st U.S. edition. Seattle: Univ. of Washington Press, [1974]. McCarty, Maclyn. The Transforming Principle: Discovering that Genes Are Made of DNA. Inscribed & signed by the author on the front free endpaper. (Faint foxing to page edges.) New York: W.W. Norton, [1985]. Watson, Elizabeth L. Houses for Science: A Pictorial History of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory with Landmarks in Twentieth Century Genetics, a Series of Essays by James D. Watson. Inscribed by the author on the title page, signed Liz and Jim. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 1991. Edelson, Edward. Francis Crick and James Watson and the Building Blocks of Life. Signed by Francis Crick on the half-title. New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press, [1998]. Sulston, John & Georgina Ferry. The Common Thread: A Story of Science, Politics, Ethics and the Human Genome. Inscribed and signed by Sulston on the title page. London: Bantam Press, [2002] McElheny, Victor K. Watson and DNA: Making a Scientific Revolution. Signed by James Watson on the half-title. [Cambridge, MA]: Perseus Publishing, [2003]. The Third Man of the Double Helix: The Autobiography of Maurice Wilkins. Signed by Wilkins on the title page. Oxford Univ. Press, [2003]. Due to the size and/or weight of this lot extra shipping and/or handling charges may apply. Lot Amendments Condition: Fine or nearly so. Item number: 280350