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Francis Crick, DNA Helix Co-Discoverer - Volume Gifted & Inscribed to His Father
Francis Crick, DNA Helix Co-Discoverer - Volume Gifted & Inscribed to His Father
Francis Crick, DNA Helix Co-Discoverer - Volume Gifted & Inscribed to His Father
Francis Crick, DNA Helix Co-Discoverer - Volume Gifted & Inscribed to His Father

Francis Crick, DNA Helix Co-Discoverer - Volume Gifted & Inscribed to His Father

$ 792

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  • Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
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  • Autograph Authentication: Gray Collections
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  • Original/Reproduction: Original
  • Signed by: Francis Crick
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    Description

    FRANCIS CRICK
    .  Along with Maurice Wilkins and James Watson, Francis Crick (1916–2004) shared the 1962 Nobel Prize in Medicine for discovering the function and structure of DNA, providing the prime impetus for further research in the emerging fields of molecular genetics and biochemistry.
    A VOLUME GIFTED AND INSCRIBED BY FRANCIS CRICK TO HIS FATHER SIX YEARS BEFORE PUBLISHING THE IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT ON THE DISCOVERY OF DNA
    Waterer, John W.
    Leather in Life, Art and Industry: Being an outline of its preparation and uses in Britain yesterday and today together with some reflections on its place in the world of synthetics tomorrow
    .  London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1946.  First edition, hardcover, illustrated from photographs and other sources, cloth stamped in gilt, leather spine label, top edge gilt, 11” by 8”, 320 pages.  The volume is in fine condition with minor fading and rubbing to the spine.
    CRICK WISHES HIS FATHER A HAPPY BIRTHDAY BY SENDING HIM A VOLUME RELATED TO HIS FATHER’S SHOE FACTORY
    A volume gifted and inscribed on the front pastedown endpaper by Francis Crick to his father Harry Crick: “To Poppa, on his birthday, 11th November 1946, from Francis”.  Six years before publishing the important announcement of the discovery of DNA, Francis Crick wishes his father a Happy Birthday by sending him a volume on the care and use of leather for footwear.  Crick’s father owned and operated a shoe factory in the town Crick was born and raised in.  Unfortunately, Crick’s father died shortly after receiving this volume in 1948.  We were unable to locate any materials from Crick from this time period or to close family members making the present volume one of the earliest and most personal items from Crick on the private market.