Menachem's Seed

First edition. Tall thin 8vo. Pp. xi, 196, [1]. Quarter-bound black cloth over brick-red paper boards, lettered in silver to spine; black endpapers. Jacket illustration, Leonardo da Vinci's Coition of Hemisected Man and Woman (detail), c. 1492–94.

Signed and dated by Author to title page.

The third installment in the renowned chemist's ground-breaking "science-in-fiction" tetralogy, features a love affair against a background of the "tribal culture" of international scientific conferences. "Absorbing... A neat combination of sex and science." –San Francisco Chronicle