Aaron Douglas Illus (2 results)

8Vo Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 12th ptg. 56pp. Rust boards, gray spine, brown lettering, clipped jacket. Text and illustration is clean on unmarked, uncreased pages. Hinges are intact, textblock is square with pointed corners. Moderate overall book shelf/timewear, boardwear, board edge and cornerwear; foxing on inner boards, endpapers and textblock edges, light page patina throughout, written inscription on frontleaf; moderate+ jacketwear, jacket edge and cornerwear, small edge tears and chipping, sunning, spotting. …

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.…