The Double Helix
View cart “On the Beach” has been added to your cart.
The Double Helix
£100.00
The Double Helix
By James D. Watson
First UK edition, first impression (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1968).
A very good copy with a previous owner’s name to front endpaper and isolated instances of very faint spotting to preliminaries and rear paste-down; crease to top corner of page 68.
The original and unclipped dust jacket has some rubbing to extremities and a few tiny chips to spine ends. Closed tear to bottom of lower panel fore-edge and to top edge of upper panel with some lifting to laminate on lower panel hinge.
1 in stock
The Double Helix
By James D. Watson
First UK Edition
Quickview
Books Do Furnish a Life: Reading and Writing Science
First Edition, Modern First Editions, Non-Fiction, Science, Signed First Editions
Books Do Furnish a Life: Reading and Writing Science
By Richard Dawkins
First edition, first impression. Signed by the author to the title page. A fine book in a fine dust jacket without flaws. A pristine example.
£70.00
Quickview
The BFG
Children's Fiction, First Edition, Modern First Editions, Roald Dahl
The BFG
By Roald Dahl
First edition, first impression, published in 1982 by Jonathan Cape with illustrations by Quentin Blake.
Original grey cloth with lettering to spine in gilt. A near fine book with a bump to the bottom edge of upper board and very light toning to edges.
The original and unclipped dust jacket has a soft crease to the top portion of spine panel and to lower flap with a very small nick to spine foot and to top edge of lower flap, otherwise very good or better.
£150.00
Quickview
The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage
First Edition, Modern First Editions, Signed First Editions
The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage
By Philip Pullman
First edition, first impression. Signed by the author to the title page. A fine book in a fine, unclipped dust jacket.
£100.00
New
Quickview
Salem’s Lot
First Edition, Horror, Modern First Editions, Stephen King
Salem's Lot
By Stephen King
First UK edition, first impression. Adapted into mini-series in 1979 and 2004 with a film adaptation released in late 2024.
Original black cloth with lettering to spine in gilt. Faint off-setting to front and rear endpapers and paste-downs. A few light spots to opening few pages with the usual toning to edges.
The original dust jacket is price-clipped with the publisher's reprice sticker to the top corner of upper flap and some spotting to verso. Spine panel lettering very slightly faded.
A very good or better example of an uncommon edition of the author's second published novel.
£750.00
