Insights & Poems [Signed by Ericka Huggins]

  • SIGNED
  • San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1975
By [AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & LITERATURE] NEWTON, Huey P. and Ericka Huggins
San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1975. First Edition. First Printing. Small octavo (15cm); original pictorial card wrappers; [4],5-84,[4]pp; illus. Signed by Ericka Huggins on the title page. Pinpoint wear to extremities, tiny stress creases to upper left corner of rear wrapper, else a clean, very Near Fine copy.

Scarce collection of poems co-authored by Newton and Huggins, chronicling themes of loss, imprisonment, and liberation, including two illustrations in-text by Huggins. Newton's poems were left behind just prior to his self-imposed exile in Havana, Cuba, where he lived until 1977. "Ericka Huggins' poems are the telling introspective record of her own life during the years since her husband, Jon Huggins, was assassinated in Los Angeles in 1969" (from rear wrapper). An especially well-preserved copy, very uncommon signed. 84128.

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