LEAKEY, Richard — ONE LIFE. An Autobiography
London. Michael Joseph. First Edition. Leakey was a Kenyan paleoanthropologist, conservationist, and politician whose fossil discoveries at Koobi Fora in a fifteen-year period beginning in the late 1960s included a nearly complete 1.6-million-year-old skeleton of a young male Homo erectus. This copy is INSCRIBED and SIGNED on the half-title page: "For Nancy with my warmest/regards and appreciation to you/for your support, enthusiasm/and friendship. Next time to Koobi/Fora/Richard/14 Nov 1984.". Fine in a price-clipped, Near Fine dustwrapper