Dancing Naked in the Mind Field

New York: Pantheon Books, 1998. Signed by Kary Mullis on the title page, inscribed to former owner. x, 223 pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth and boards, spine lettered in gilt. Second printing of the first edition. Very Good+ with small coffee stain to top edge 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. (Inventory #: 140945812)