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First edition copy. . No Dust Jacket Former Library book. 1st U.K. edition. (religious poetry, sermons)

First edition, first printing. Good in cloth boards with much of backstrip missing. Foxing. Lacks dustjacket.

1st ed. Fair copy, front board detached, spine strip missing, ink name to ffep, text block intact with only light foxing

1929. First UK edition. 59pp. James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938) was an American writer, civil rights activist, and a leading figure of the Harlem Renaissance. In this book, one of his most celebrated works, inspirational sermons of African American preachers are reimagined as poetry, reverberating with the musicality and splendid eloquence of the spirituals. This classic collection includes "Listen Lord (A Prayer)," "The Creation," "The Prodigal Son," "Go Down Death (A Funeral Sermon)," "Noah Built the Ark," "The Crucifixion," "Let My People Go," and "The Judgment Day." The book is bound in the original purple paper covered boards with black titling on paper labels on the spine and front board. The case of the book is in very good condition with shelf wear and light soiling on the boards. The spine is faded and there is lighter fading near the spine edge of the front board and to a larger part of the rear board. The paper covering the corner tips is worn and the spine ends are bumped with a little damage at the top of the spine and loss of about 1/4" at the bottom of the spine. The contents are tight and clean although there is moderate foxing scattered throughout. The foxing is mostly light with some of the early pages being more heavily affecteed. There is a brief inscription dated 1934 on the front free endpaper.

The Second Printing in same year as first. A Very Good copy in quarter black cloth, sepia-gold decorated paper covered boards, no dustwrapper. Wear to edges and points of boards, some rubbing of gilt on spine. 56pp. This copy bears the small bookplate of Martha Jane Grabhorn, the wife of Robert Grabhorn (of the Grabhorn Press). She was a typographer and designer in her own right, and was a founder of the Colt Press. Association copy. Q20760

First Edition, First Printing. Black cloth spine with gold paper boards. Boards are rubbed through at the corners with mild scuffing to the front board. Clean, has a good binding, no marks or notations. 56 pp.

Size: 0x0x0; SIGNED by James Weldon Johnson, inscribed to former owner in ink on the front free endpaper, dated March 10, 1930. Fourth printing of the first edition. Bound in publisher's boards with black cloth spine, lacking dust jacket. Good, rubbed and worn along edges, front hinge cracked but holding. A rare signed copy of the Harlem Renaissance poet's work.