The Making of Mankind

New York: E.P. Dutton, 1981. First edition.

HUMAN EVOLUTION IN BRIGHT COLORS--SIGNED BY RICHARD LEAKEY.

18x25 cm hardcover, maroon cloth binding, gilt title to spine, inscribed on half title, "For Kitchie Ewald, with tremendous admiration and appreciation. Let us keep in contact. Very best wishes, Richard Leakey, March 28, 1982". With laid in brochure titled, "Sweet Briar College Presents 1982 Ewald Scholars Symposium: The World's Leading Paleoanthropologists Richard E. Leakey, Donald C. Johanson, F. Clark Howell: Early Man: The Search for Origins, Sunday and Monday March 28 and 29, 1982" with an inscription in red ink, "Sweet Briar has been chosen by both Rich and myself to present an [illegible] of hominid evolution". 255pp, many color illustrations and maps. Near fine in near fine jacket in protective mylar sleeve.

RICHARD E. LEAKEY (1944-2022) was a Kenyan paleoanthropologist, conservationist and politician. As a small boy, Leakey lived in Nairobi with his parents: Louis Leakey, curator of the Coryndon Museum, and Mary Leakey, director of the Leakey excavations at Olduvai, and his two brothers. Leakey held a number of official positions in Kenya, mostly in institutions of archaeology and wildlife conservation. He was Director of the National Museum of Kenya, founded the NGO WildlifeDirect, and was the chairman of the Kenya Wildlife Service.