Embryo

Signed by Author First book of poetry by this African-American writer, who was the first official poet laureate of the state of California. Presentation copy, inscribed with a warm note to Dr. Hans Fehling, signed, and dated 1972, the year of publication. The end papers have the stamp of the Aquarian Bookshop in Los Angeles. This was the longest running Black owned bookstore in the United States when it was burned to the ground in the Los Angeles riots in 1992.