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Auction: 284 - Bond, Share & Americana Mailbid & Internet Exclusive
Lot: 1004

Book "God´s Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse." James Weldon Johnson. Aaron Douglas, illustrator, with lettering by C.B. Falls. New York, Viking Press, 1927. First edition. 8vo, gray boards with black cloth spine. No jacket. Cracked interior hinges. Detached but present front endpaper with pen note. Chipped and worn board edges, some cloth loss at edges of spine, otherwise good, with interior pages tight and clean. Johnson was a leading figure of the Harlem Renaissance. Estimate US$ 40-50

Estimate
$40 to $50