Melvin Dickson. 
 
Publication date & company unknown. Softcover. Staplebound. Small octavo. Ripples on the wraps caused by the staples. Small folds on the cover's corners. Specks on the back cover above the author photo and by the author's name. Below the dedication there is an impression, and on many of the leaves in the margins by the fore-edge there is a smaller one. Last pages have dogear folds. 52 pages. Signed. Very good. Extremely rare.
 
Poems by a Black Panther Party member who organized the Free Breakfast Program in East Oakland and was the founder of Commemoration Committee for the Black Panther Party, which published The Commemorator newspaper (1990 - 2012). 
 
"So as one's first thought 
         is a necessity, 
             second thought 
          is a luxury."