Hauser's Memory

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1968. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21cm); red cloth, with titling and pictorial elements stamped in black on spine and front cover; dustjacket; [viii],184pp. Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket, unclipped (priced $4.95), with light wear to spine ends and extremities. A sequel to Siodmak's 1943 novel Donovan's Brain, in which "Pat Cory, Nobel Prize-winning biochemist, transplants RNA from Hauser, World War II German chemist, to Hillel Mondoro. Unwittingly, he transplants Hauser's whole revenge-directed personality. Mondoro dies killing Geller, Nazi concentration camp criminal, while under control of "Hauser's memory," thus losing Hauser's formula for control of hydrogen fission" (Barron, Anatomy of Wonder 3-351). 82837. (Inventory #: 82837)