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The first Penguin edition, with the '1' in a number series. A clean, bright, unmarked copy.

Some light fraying to paper on the spine edges. Light wear to surfaces and extremities. Some foxing to page extremities. Name inscription to front end-paper, otherwise unmarked.

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.

Hardcover first edition, George Allen & Unwin 1929 Great Britain. This book is in fair-good condition. Signs of water damage on back cover along with some bowing of board; some loss of surface material along top of board; some loss of surface material on right edge; tear about two inches long on front edge of spine; foxing mostly on first and last pages. Binding is firm and all text is bright and clear.

Heavy foxing on the pages.

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

First English edition (the American edition was first published in 1927). Octavo. 61pp. Paper-covered boards with publisher's printed label on front cover and spine. Small owner's name dated 1930 on front flyleaf, endpapers have faint red stain at fore-edge, text moderately foxed, fading on fore-edge of both boards, spine has started to split at one edge, not quite very good. The American edition is sub-titled "Seven Negro Sermons in Verse" and is illustrated by Aaron Douglas. This English edition is not illustrated. It is however, very scarce.

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.

First English edition. 59p. 1 vols. Slim 8vo. Early printing. Includes "The Prodigal Son", beginning "Young man.Your arm's too short to box with God." Mauve boards with paper labels, sunned, pencil notations else a very good copy. Very Scarce

First Edition, fourth printing stated. Art Deco illustrations by Aaron Douglas and Germanic lettering by C B Falls. Ownership bookplate of Walter K. Robinson. This may have been Walter Kenneth Robinson Senior, one of the Tuskegee Airmen.

Viking Press May 945 First Edition, Eleventh Printing. Condition: very good clothboards; near fine text block; good dust jacket. Rust orange clothboards; gold printing on faded spine; some fading at top edge. Title beautifully blindstamped onto front cover (see photo.) Textblock clean, tightly bound, square, unmarked; lightly tanning; top edge dyed orange to match boards. Pages beautifully illustrated with 8 paintings by famous black artist and muralist Aaron Douglas in his unique style. Illustrations are on specially bound-in heavy paper. Germanic fractur style lettering by C.B. Falls, in gold, on title page, preface, and each of the 8 sermon titles. Sermon text is laid out in prose style. Unclipped paper dust jacket with original $2.50 price on flap; some big chunks missing a spine; smaller splits and tears on other edges. Now protected in clear archival Brodart wrapper (removable.) Packaged with care and shipped in a box to arrive in best condition. Complete satisfaction guarantee; no sale is final until you are satisfied. Written by James Weldon Johnson, black activist, teacher, lawyer, diplomate, writer and poet of the Harlem Renaissance period. He composed a poem which was later set to music to become "Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing" to honor renowned educator Booker T. Washington. Johnson's collection God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse (1927) is considered his most important poetry. He demonstrated that black folk life could be the material of serious poetry. He also comments on the violence of racism in poems such as "Fragment," which portrays slavery as against both God's love and God's law. (wiki)

First Printing. Publishers boards heavy wear to the spine, chip, and to the extremities.

First Printing. Publishers boards heavy wear to the spine, chip, and to the extremities.