God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse

No book-club issue documented at first publication. The critical trap is that Viking's SECOND printing is also dated 1927 (July 1927) — a 1927 date alone does not establish a first printing; only the copyright page, showing 'First Published in April, 1927' with no later printing dates added beneath, settles it. Viking kept the book in print for decades and numbered its printings on the copyright page (a seventeenth printing of 1959 is recorded in the trade), and later reissues (Viking 1969; Penguin 1990, the first Penguin edition) are common.