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Published by Pantheon Books, New York, 1998
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
First edition. First edition, first printing. Signed by Kary Mullis on the title page, inscribed to a fellow classmate at Dreher High School in Columbia, South Carolina. x, 223 pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth and boards, spine lettered in gilt. Fine in Fine dust jacket, hint of shelf wear. The autobiography of the late Nobel Prize-winning biochemist, which has become very rare signed. He's best known as the inventor of the PCR test, which was front and center during the Covid pandemic. An iconoclast, his hobbies included surfing and taking hallucinogenic drugs.