SIGNED NOBEL. The Art of the Soluble

London: Methuen & Co., Ltd., 1967. First edition.

CREATIVITY AND ORIGINALITY IN SCIENCE BY NOBEL LAUREATE SIR PETER MEDAWAR, SIGNED.

8 3/4 inches tall hardcover, gray cloth binding, gilt title to spine, inscribed on front free endpaper, "Mike and Maria Friedman/ with very best wishes from/ Peter Medawar/ April 1967", 160 pp, small inscription top of back paste-down, "41. complementarity" referring to a marginal mark on page 41 (no other marks or notations). Very good minus with closed tear in backstrip in very good minus jacket with small tears top of front and closed tear to back, in protective mylar sleeve.

SIR PETER MEDAWAR (1915 - 1987) was a British zoologist whose work on graft rejection and the discovery of acquired immune tolerance was fundamental to the practice of tissue and organ transplants. He was awarded the 1960 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Sir Frank MacFarlane Burnet.