The Third Man of the Double Helix.

£950 · Offered by Shapero Rare Books

signed and inscribed First edition, first printing, inscribed by the author, 'Best wishes Maurice Wilkins'. A fine copy of Maurice Wilkins' autobiography, The Third Man of the Double Helix. Wilkins shared the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine with Francis Crick and James Watson for the discovery of the double helix structure of DNA. Published when he was 86 years old, the autobiography gives his account of the story, as well as addressing his strained professional relationship with Rosalind Franklin. First edition, signed and inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper; 8vo; illustrated with black and white photographs; publisher's black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, in the pictorial dust jacket, a fine copy; xiv, 274pp.

• Binding: Hardcover

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