General nature of the genetic code for proteins.

London, Macmillan, 1961. 4to (27.0 x 20.5 cm). 6 pp. [1227-1232]; six text figures, three tables. [whole volume: 1322 pp. and oddly numbered wrappers]. Contempory light tan cloth, with title printed in black on the spine. = The first edition of the discovery of the genetic functions of DNA was in Nature vol. 171 (1953), but it took several more years to clarify and understand how, exactly, how the code was read. In this work it was postulated that a group of three bases codes one amino-acid and that the code is of a non-overlapping type. The fundamental issues that Crick, Gamow, Watson and Brenner had embarked upon in the summer of 1954 were now resolved. We offer the complete vol. 192 of Nature (#4797-4809, 1322, cvii pp.). A year later, in December of 1962, Crick, Watson, and Maurice Wilkins went to Stockholm to receive the Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine. Brenner received a Nobel prize in 2002. Bookplate on front pastedown, library stamps on the title pages (bound together in front), boards slightly soiled, otherwise a very good copy. The text pages clean. Garrison-Morton, 7527.