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God’s Trombones : Seven Negro Sermons in Verse.
New York: The Viking Press, 1927. 8vo (8.875” x 6.375”), half black cloth with gold and black paper over boards, black cloth corners at front cover. 56 pp., b&w illus. Ownership inscription in ink at ffep: “Raymond G. Worster.” CONDITION: Very good, light to moderate wear to covers, corners rubbed. First edition, first printing of this volume of seven poems—James Weldon Johnson’s remarkable attempt to “fix something” of the “old-time Negro preacher[s]”—their “positive genius,” their enjoyment of language, their role in society (both Black and white), and, of course, their “wonderful voice, a voice—what shall I say?—not of an organ or a trumpet, but rather of a trombone, the instrument possessing above all others the power to express the wide and varied range of emotions encompassed by the human voice…” REFERENCES: Blockson 5369.
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Price: $1,000.00
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