The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher
New York: The Viking Press, 1974.
Signed by Lewis Thomas on the front free endpaper, inscribed to former owner. Third printing of the first edition. [vi],153 pp. Bound in publisher's green paper and blue cloth backstrip, spine lettered in silver and blue, blue topstain. Very Good with bumped corners, remainder mark on bottom edge, lightly soiled, in a Very Good+ dust jacket, small foxing spot to front panel. A signed copy of the acclaimed collection of 29 essays on scientific topics of various types, originally published in The New England Journal of Medicine. It routinely makes lists of the best 20th century nonfiction books.
Price: $600
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