The Gold Bug Variations. by POWERS, Richard - 1991.

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William Morrow & Company, 1991. Hardcover. Acceptable. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

William Morrow & Company, 1991. Hardcover. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

UsedVeryGood. Signs of wear/scuffs on dust jacket, board corners, & lower/upper bind but book is in very good condition. Text is mostly clean & readable. Stitching is tight.

William Morrow & Co, 1991-08. Hardcover. Good.

HarperCollins Publishers. Used - Very Good. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

HarperCollins Publishers. Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Novel. May have markings or writing inside from previous owner. DJ has slight bumping on the top/spine, edges, corners. The outer edges may have tanning, browning, stains and foxing. Deckled edges. Stuart Ressler, an up-and-coming molecular biologist, finds his career sidetracked by the turmoil of the sixties, and a young couple of the 1980s tries to discover why the biologist abandoned his scientific pursuits. A16.

William Morrow & Co, 1991-08-01. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good//Good+. . 9x6x1. VG/GOOD+. FIRST EDITION, blue illustrated jacket, dust jacket in archival plastic protector. Light shelf wear to jacket with small creases to edges, corners, and spine ends, tightly bound, clean text and illustrations..<p> Once Read Books, cover scan available - just ask, OnceReadBooks com<p> Orders shipped via USPS.

NY: William Morrow & Company. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust wrapper. 1991. Third Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0688098916. 639 pages; Spine ends lightly bumped, a few faint splashes and one smudge on top page edges. Red remainder mark on bottom edge. Unclipped dust wrapper has very light edgewear and rubbing. A nice copy.; An intriguing and absorbing novel featuring four people in a story of science (DNA, genomes, computers), music (Bach), and love. "The four protagonists are driven toward a provisional definition of life in all its chemical particulars - the secret shorthands, the compositional impulse of evolution, the links laid down between the cell itself and the complex organism that would try to understand it. Each must discover something of the unified diversity of the life molecule, its endless, mutating variations on a four-note theme.". Catalogs: Fiction. Keywords: DNA, Genome, Science, music, Novel, Bach.