Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

Times Books / Random House, 1995. First printing. Hardcover. Fine/very good. Octavo; xi, [xii], 403 pages; two yellow price labels from NYC's famed Strand Bookstore (from 1997, and 1998) on the front pastedown; there is a pinhole puncture starting a short, closed tear on the spine of the dust jacket, a defect which is only slightly noticeable because it part of the dj illustration which wraps around across the spine title.

Inscribed on the half-title page by Barack Obama: "To Jean and Paul / Thanks for all your / friendship and support !" F. Paul Mooring was a physicist at Argonne National Laboratory. He and Jean spearheaded the creation of the Illinois Prairie Path. He was on the DuPage Conservation Commission, the Conservation Foundation and served as president and treasurer of the Illinois Audubon Society. The Moorings were early supporters of Obama as an Illinois State Senator, and in his following campaigns for U. S. Senator from Illinois, and President of the United States. Note: this book had only one printing ( reportedly 2500 copies only) in its first edition, and many of those went to institutional libraries, and other copies were remaindered. It bears no remainder marks, but that may be how The Strand bookstore acquired it. Unlike today, few people wanted it prior to 2004 - except State Senator Obama, who bought remaindered copies after his supply of author's copies was exhausted.