God's trombones : seven negro sermons in verse

1927
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 999
Watson Library copy is inscribed by author.

"Fourth Printing, January, 1929"

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: God's trombones : seven negro sermons in verse
  • Author: James Weldon Johnson (American, Jacksonville, Florida 1871-1938 Wiscasset, Maine)
  • Artist: Aaron Douglas (American, Topeka, Kansas 1899–1979 Nashville, Tennessee)
  • Artist: Charles B. Falls (born 1874)
  • Publisher: Viking Press
  • Date: 1927
  • Geography: New York, N.Y.
  • Dimensions: 8 unnumbered pages, 56 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; Height: 9 1/16 in. (23 cm)
  • Object Number: PS3519.O2625 G6 1927

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