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Simon & Schuster, 1st Edition, 3rd Printing 2021, SIGNED by Walter Isaacson on a tipped-in leaf. Hardcover with dust jacket, 536 numbered pages, 24 x 16 cm, blue boards with gilt titling, jacket features photographic headshot of Nobel Prize Winner Jennifer Doudna on front and spine. NEW (unread) book. Condition is Fine in Fine. When Jennifer Doudna was in sixth grade, she came home one day to find that her dad had left a paperback titled The Double Helix on her bed. As she sped through the pages, she became enthralled by the intense drama behind the competition to discover the code of life. Even though her high school counselor told her girls didn t become scientists, she decided she would. More masterful storytelling from Walter Isaacson.

Simon & Schuster, 1st Edition, 3rd Printing 2021, SIGNED by Walter Isaacson on a tipped-in leaf. Hardcover with dust jacket, 536 numbered pages, 24 x 16 cm, blue boards with gilt titling, jacket features photographic headshot of Nobel Prize Winner Jennifer Doudna on front and spine. NEW (unread) book. Condition is Fine in Fine. When Jennifer Doudna was in sixth grade, she came home one day to find that her dad had left a paperback titled The Double Helix on her bed. As she sped through the pages, she became enthralled by the intense drama behind the competition to discover the code of life. Even though her high school counselor told her girls didn t become scientists, she decided she would. More masterful storytelling from Walter Isaacson.

Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1995. First American Edition, First Printing. Dark blue board with light blue (quarter) binding. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket - bump on spine bottom, occasional surface flecks on front board, jacket has minimal edge-wear. Nobel Literature Awardee 2017. Ishiguro's 4th novel, a surrealistic tale of John Ryder - a famous English pianist who finds himself in a strange city, which won the 1995 Cheltenham prize. DJ painting by John Bowman.

Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2015. First Edition, First Printing. Quarter cloth, green board with geometric design, dark edges, pictorial endpapers. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket - DJ has slight edge-wear and spot of surface loss on from cover. Nobel Literature Awardee 2017. Nice copy.

Putnam, New York, First American Edition, First Printing 1982. Hardcover with dust jacket (in protective mylar), 183 pp, 8+ x 5+ inches, white boards with teal spine featuring gold titling, jacket (designed by Joel Avirom) has charming Japanese illustration within a extra-large "H". Condition is Near Fine in Near Fine, very slight twist to spine and almost imperceptible spotting on top edge, jacket has minimal wear at spine top and bottom - more photographs available on request. Kazuo Ishiguro's first novel with a small print run in the States. The book won the Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize, and the author has subsequently won the Nobel Prize for Literature. A lovely copy of a work whose importance is only now being realized.