God's Trombones. Seven Negro Sermons in Verse
New York, The Viking Press, 1941 (ninth printing)/ 1927.
Small quarto, [viii], 56 pages (printed in black and yellow) plus 8 full-page blue-toned plates.
Quarter black cloth and textured gold papered boards, lettered respectively in gold and black; covers very slightly rubbed and bumped at the extremities; endpapers tanned; early gift inscription on the front flyleaf; an excellent copy with the price-clipped pictorial dustwrapper lightly stained and slightly worn at the extremities.
'The inspirational sermons of the old-time Negro preachers are here set down as poetry. Mr Johnson tells in his preface of hearing these same themes treated by famous preachers in his youth; some of the sermons are still current, and like the Spirituals they have a significant place in Negro folk-material. The poet has not only given them a form in which they will survive; he has transmuted their essence into original and moving poetry' (from the dustwrapper blurb). The illustrations are by the African American artist Aaron Douglas.
Item #131749
Price (AUD):
$165.00