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What Mad Pursuit: A Personal View of Scientific Discovery
by Francis Crick
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Used - fine/Near fine
- ISBN 10
- 0465091377
- ISBN 13
- 9780465091379
- Seller
-
San Diego, California, United States
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About This Item
Basic Books, November 1988. First. Hardcover . Used - fine/Near fine. First Edition with “1†in the number line. Inscribed by Crick to UCSD colleague Sanford (Sandy) Lakhoff and dated in the year of publication. Two unobtrusive ink marks in margins of pages 8 and 67. Near Fine in Near Fine unclipped dust jacket ($16.95) with sunned spine (black lettering remains bold). Now protected in removable mylar.
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Details
- Bookseller
- La Playa Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 57292
- Title
- What Mad Pursuit: A Personal View of Scientific Discovery
- Author
- Francis Crick
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- ISBN 10
- 0465091377
- ISBN 13
- 9780465091379
- Publisher
- Basic Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- November 1988
- Pages
- 182
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About the Seller
La Playa Books
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San Diego, California
About La Playa Books
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- Spine
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- Inscribed
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- First Edition
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- Fine
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- Number Line
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- Jacket
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- Sunned
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