God’s Trombones, James Weldon Johnson, 1927, Near Fine HC, Good DJ

James Weldon Johnson, New York, New York: Viking Press, 1927, Near Fine 8vo, 6 ¼” x 8 ¾”, 55 pp.

Johnson, James Weldon, God’s Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse (New York, New York: Viking Press, 1927) Near Fine 8vo, 6 ¼” x 8 ¾” red and cream cloth over boards, red title to front cover and spine, slight bumping, inscription to front free paper, Good cream dust jacket with brown image and red title to the front cover, brown title to the front cover, spine, and back cover, price clip, stamped letter and numbers on bottom corner of front flap, ¼” tear to bottom edge, shelfware along front cover, spine, and back cover, protected in Mylar, 55 pp. Illustrations by Aaron Douglas in black-and-white and are full-page. Lettering by C.B. Falls. 10^th printing edition. Sermons from the book are based on African American religious stories, and some are inspired by sermons that Johnson heard as a child from Black preachers. The book is comprised of eight poems, each with an accompanying illustration.