Books are revised when new editions come out. We really need first editions of each book. Is that possible or have they all been bought up?
First Edition (used):
Dreams From My Father: A Story Of Race And Inheritance (ISBN: 081292343X / 0-8129-2343-X)
Barack Obama
Bookseller: Brenbooks
(Rockville, MD, U.S.A.)
Bookseller Rating:
Price: US$ 7200.00
You are right; for the record, the url I sourced for “Dreams” is the 2004 edition. Wiki says first edition 1995. I skimmed the preface & intro for revision comments & note the following:
” PREFACE TO THE 2004 EDITION
A LMOST A DECADE HAS passed since this book was first published. As I mention in the original introduction, the
opportunity to write the book came while I was in law school, the result of my election as the first African-American
president of the Harvard Law Review.”
“The exception is my mother, whom we lost, with a brutal swiftness, to cancer a few months after this book was
published.
She had spent the previous ten years doing what she loved. She traveled the world....
We saw each other frequently, our bond unbroken. During the writing of this book, she would read the drafts,
correcting stories that I had misunderstood, careful not to comment on my characterizations of her but quick to explain
or defend the less flattering aspects of my father’s character. She managed her illness with grace and good humor, and
she helped my sister and me push on with our lives, despite our dread, our denials, our sudden constrictions of the
heart. “