NMLP P-041735 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-19

God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse

James Weldon Johnson · The Viking Press, New York · 1927

US first — census claim corrected. The Viking Press, New York, April 1927 precedes the British edition from George Allen & Unwin, London, 1929 by two years. The census note of 'US only' is wrong: the Allen & Unwin edition exists and is collected as the first UK edition (copies are found in purple cloth), but Viking 1927 is the true first.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-041735 for "God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse" by James Weldon Johnson (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-041735, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).