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(SCIENTISTS.) CRICK, FRANCIS. Two books, each Signed and Inscribed, to his personal assistant, Maria Lang: Arthur Goldsmith. Nude in Photography * Ed. Barbara Mellor. The Beauty of Love. The first, "To Betty / for her birthday / Love / Francis 1985," on front free endpaper. 4to, cloth, some warping to front cover, faint scattered soiling; lacking dust jacket. The second, "For Maria / with love from / Francis / New Year 1991," on front free endpaper. 8vo, cloth-backed boards; silk bookmark; original slipcase. (Chicago): Ridge Press and Playboy Press, (1975); London: Victoria's Secret, 1990; inscriptions: 1985; 1991
Provenance: From the collection of Crick's personal assistant, Maria Lang, who was employed at the Salk Institute from 1977 to her retirement in 1994. Lang changed her name from "Betty" to "Maria" in the late 1980s. Crick--an advocate of open marriage--enjoyed with Lang a sexual relationship between 1981 and 1992.
