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CRICK, Francis (1916-2004). What Mad Pursuit: A Personal View of Scientific Discovery. New York: Basic Books, Inc., [1988].
8vo. Illustrated from photographs. Original blue cloth, gilt-lettered spine; original unclipped dust jacket (spine a touch sunned).
Second printing of the first edition, INSCRIBED BY CRICK on the front free endpaper. ADDITIONALLY SIGNED BY JAMES WATSON on the front flyleaf. Crick and Watson, along with Maurice Wilkins, are best known as the discoverers of the structure of DNA in 1953 for which they were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1962.