FINE COPY FIRST EDITION, first issue (First Edition stated on the copyright page). 8vo, pp. [2], xvi, 226, with several illustrations. Gilt-stamped blue cloth. Fine in bright near fine price-clipped dust jacket. One of the most topical books of our time. Watson's account of his participation in unraveling the structure of DNA for which he shared the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1962 with Francis Crick.