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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). Seller Inventory # 220819-1
Bibliographic Details
Title: GOD'S TROMBONES: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse
Publisher: Viking
Publication Date: 1945
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Fair
Edition: 1st Edition
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