Watson at Cold Spring Harbor
Collection of Books Inscribed or Signed by Nobel laureate James D. Watson.
New York: Knopf, Cold Spring Harbor, Oxford, etc, [1992-2009].
Price: $7,500.00
About the item
15 vols. 4to or 8vo. Watson at Cold Spring Harbor. Cloth or boards with dust jackets; wrappers. Generally fine (some titles with recipient’s address label).
Item #321780
A choice group of inscribed material from Watson’s late career. The recipient was Katya Davey, who for many years ran the guest house at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory conference center. She was recruited for the post by Watson in his capacity as director of the laboratory, and the cordial inscriptions point to the esteem for her in the community.
Books signed or inscribed by James Watson to (Mrs. Katya Davey):
1 Watson, James. Genes, Girls, and Gamow. xxvii, 275 pp. Oxford University Press, [2001]. First edition, printed in the UK. Signed “Jim Watson” on title page. Label partly removed from front flyleaf. 2 —— ——. A Passion for DNA. Genes, Genomes, and Society. With three new essays. xxiv, 264 pp. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 2001. First paperback edition. Wrappers. Inscribed on the title page, “for Katya from Jim 12 March 2002”. KD label.
3 —— ——. The Double Helix. A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA. Text, Commentary, Reviews, Original Papers. Edited by Gunther S. Stent. Norton Critical Edition. W.W. Norton, [n.d]. Second printing. Wrappers. Inscribed on the half title, “for Katya upon Valentine Day ’94 from Jim”.
4 —— ——. The Double Helix. A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA. Touchstone paperback, [12th printing, n.d.]. Wrappers. Inscribed on flyleaf, “for Katya from Jim Watson”.
5 —— ——. The Double Helix. A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA. Touchstone paperback, [24th printing, n.d.]. Wrappers. Signed “James D. Watson” on the title page. Two (2) copies.
6 —— ——. Avoid Boring People. Lessons from a Life in Science. 347, [6] pp. Knopf, 2007. Cloth backed boards, dust jacket. Signed on the title page, “James D. Watson”, and with loosely inserted signature leaf from Easton Press edition, signed “James D. Watson 19 September 2007”. KD ownership signature. Staining at foot of title page and along fore edge.
7 Watson, James, with Andrew Berry. DNA The Secret of Life. Illustrated. xiv, 446, [2] pp. Knopf, 2003. Black boards, dust jacket. Inscribed on the title page, “for Katya from Jim”. KD label.
8 Friedberg, Errol C. The Writing Life of James D. Watson. xvii, 193 pp. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 2005. Black cloth, dust jacket. Inscribed on the title page, “about me as a writer, for Katya from Jim”.
Inscribed to Katya Davey by others:
9 The Dynamic Genome. Barbara McClintock’s Ideas in the Century of Genetics. Edited by Nina Fedoroff, David Botstein. vii, 422 pp. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 1992. Green cloth, duts jacket. Inscribed on the half title by Fedoroff. KD label.
10 Watson, James, et al. Recombinant DNA. Second Edition. Illustrated. xiv, 626 pp. Wrappers. Inscribed for Katya by co-authors Jan Witkowski and Mark Zoller.
11 Essentials of Neural Science and Behavior. Edited by Eric R. Kandel, James H. Schwartz, Thomas M. Jessell. Illustrated. [xxiv], 743 pp. Appleton & Lange, 1995. Pictorial boards. Inscribed to Katya by [Thomas M. Jessell].
12 Carlson, Elof Axel. The Unfit. A History of a Bad Idea. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 2001. Illustrated. [xvi], 451 pp. Blue cloth, dust jacket. Inscribed by the author to Katya Davey on the front flyleaf. KD label.
13 Ptashne, Mark ,and Alexander Gann. Genes & Signals. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 2002. Pictorial wrappers. Advance copy, inscribed to Katya by Gann on half title. KD label.
14 Inspiring Science. Jim Watson and the Age of DNA. Edited by John Inglis, Joseph Sambrook, Jan Witkowski. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, 2003. Black cloth, dust jacket. Inscribed by Sambrook and Witkowski. KD label.
