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Lot 187
Sale 6426 - Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana
Nov 13, 2025
10:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
Estimate
$2,000 -
3,000
Lot Description
OBAMA, Barack (b. 1961). A group of 4 FIRST EDITIONS, ALL SIGNED, comprising:
Dreams from My Father. New York: Times Books/Random House, 1995. Original cloth-backed boards; dust jacket; half morocco folding case. SIGNED BY OBAMA on the title-page. -- The Audacity of Hope. New York: Crown Publishers, 2006. Original paper-covered boards; dust jacket; half morocco folding case. SIGNED BY OBAMA on the title-page. -- Of Thee I Sing. A Letter to My Daughters. New York: Alfred Knopf, 2010. Illustrations by Loren Long. Original pictorial boards; dust jacket. SIGNED by the illustrator on the title-page. ADDITIONALLY, INSCRIBED WITH AN ORIGINAL DRAWING DEPICTING OBAMA by the illustrator on the rear pastedown. -- A Promised Land. New York: Crown, 2020. Original grey cloth; slipcase. SIGNED BY OBAMA on an inserted leaf as issued. Together, 4 works in 4 volumes, 8vo and 4to sizes, ALL FIRST EDITIONS with complete number lines, condition generally fine.
Provenance: David Curry (his letter of provenance laid in: "Obama signed my first editions of his first two books in an appearance in October 2006 at Borders Bookstore on Michigan Avenue in Chicago").
This lot is located in Chicago.




