JOHNSON, JAMES WELDON
God's Trombones. New York: The Viking Press, 1927. First edition, inscribed "For Ralph Van Vechten, whom I feel I know very well through and because of Carl." Publisher's gold paper covered boards in original dust jacket. 56 pp., plates. Slightly cocked, jacket with a few chips to extremities, slightly darkened; Together with The Book [... The Second Book] of Negro Spirituals. New York: Viking, 1925 [second printing] & 1926 [first printing]. 2 volumes. Each inscribed for Ralph Van Vechten, the first signed by Johnson and arranger J. Rosamond Johnson, the second inscribed by J. Rosamond Johnson. Original cloth, the first with dust jacket. Jacket worn, some thumbsoiling.
An interesting association between Johnson and Ralph Van Vechten, brother of Harlem Renaissance patron Carl Van Vechten.