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141 OBAMA, Barack. The Audacity of Hope. New York: Crown Publishers, 2006 First edition, inscribed by the author on the title page, “To Sigrid & Dick – Best wishes! Barack Obama”. The Audacity of Hope was the second book written by Obama, following Dreams from my Father in 1995. Topping the bestseller lists, the book helped bolster the reputation of the Illinois senator, who declared his ultimately successful candidacy for the presidency a few months after publication. Octavo. Original black boards, spine lettered in gilt, light brown endpapers. With dust jacket. A fine copy in fine jacket. £2,500 [152568] 142 OLIVER, Mary. Provincetown. Wood Engravings by Barnard Taylor. Lewisburg: The Press of Appletree Alley, 1987 A POET OF WISDOM AND GENEROSITY First edition, number 70 of 145 copies signed on the limitation page, containing some of Mary Oliver’s best poems from her early collections, as well as “Fish Bones”, published here for the first time. Mary Oliver (1935–2019) won the Pulitzer prize in 1984 and the National Book Award in 1992. Primarily a poet of nature, she lived for most of her writing career in Provincetown, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, and has
been compared to Ralph Waldo Emerson and Emily Dickinson. The Harvard Review described Oliver’s poetry as “an excellent antidote for the excesses of civilization, for too much flurry and inattention, and the baroque conventions of our social and professional lives. She is a poet of wisdom and generosity whose vision allows us to look intimately at a world not of our making. The humbling effect of that perspective is her lasting gift to readers”. Octavo. Original blue cloth-backed patterned boards, paper spine label lettered in blue, tan endpapers. Engravings in blue in text, title page partly printed in blue. Touch of spotting to covers and contents, edges foxed, internally bright with sharp illustrations. A very good copy indeed. £2,250 [153539] 143 OLIVER, Mary. Dog Songs. Thirty-five Dog Songs and One Essay. New York: The Penguin Press, 2013 SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR First edition, signed by the author on the first blank. Oliver characterizes the reciprocal displays of affection between humans and their best friends: “‘Tell me you love me,’ he says. ‘Tell me again.’ Could there be a sweeter arrangement? Over and over he gets to ask. I get to tell”. Octavo. Original white cloth, titles to spine in red and front cover in blind, brown endpapers. With 11 full-page
illustrations by John Burgoyne. Trivial bump to board fore edge, a fine, crisp copy, in near-fine dust jacket, not price- clipped, small crease to front flap, bright and sharp. £1,250 [150453] 144 O’NEILL, Eugene. The Emperor Jones. Cincinnati: Stewart Kidd Company, 1921 First separate edition, inscribed on the title page, “For Bob Seile(?), Eugene O’Neill”, and also inscribed by
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