In His Image: The Cloning of a Man

J.B. Lippincott and Company, Philadelphia, PA. 1978. Hardcover. 2nd Printing by Line Number. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Near Fine; scant shelfwear. DJ: Very Good; NOT Price Clipped ($8.95); light chipping at head and tail; light wear to tips. Red paper over boards with black cloth overlay on the spine with bright silver lettering on the spine. 239 pp 8vo. This book, published in 1978, is the author's story about helping a wealthy man who came to him with an unusual request. He wanted the author, a respected science writer, to help him create a clone of himself. He had never married and had no heir to the considerable international fortune he had amassed. The book describes the author's qualms about the project, but his final belief that human cloning can be done and should be done. The author locates a scientist willing to take on the task, and the wealthy American, known as "Max," sets him up with a laboratory somewhere in the Pacific regions. The author disguises names and places, but wherever they did the work had nutmeg trees and a warm climate. The end result is a pregnancy and a live birth, a baby born in 1976 as a result of cloning. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.…