[POLITICAL]. OBAMA, Barack Hussein. Dreams from My Father. New York: Times Books, 1995. 8vo. Original black cloth-backed boards (spotting to text-black fore-edge; original dust jacket (very light spotting to rear flap edge, else fine). FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. Dreams from My Father was published as Barack Obama was preparing to run for the Illinois Senate and was re-published nine years later when he announced his candidacy for the United States Senate. The book was described as “the best-written memoir ever produced by an American politician” by Time columnist Joe Klein. It had only one printing in its first edition, and many of those went to lending libraries, and other copies were remaindered.