Victoria, BC: Trafford Publishing, (2006). SIGNED first edition - Autobiographical account of life on a small farm in Virginia during the Depression Years. The author mentions his fascination with planes even then - he went on to work in the manned space program for NASA. Illustrated with photographs. INSCRIBED on the title page. 264 pp. ISBN: 1+41206290X.

New York: Random House, (1982.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A memoir of his childhood years (from roughly 1934-1944) in a sprawling parsonage compound in a small Yoruba town in Western Nigeria by the Nobel prize winning playwright, novelist and poet. 230 pp. Review laid in. ISBN: 0-394-528077.