Literary work
The Literary Work of James Weldon Johnson
The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man (novel), Sherman, French, 1912, Arden Library, 1978, reprinted, Dover, 1995.
(Translator) Fernando Periquet, Goyescas; or, The Rival Lovers (opera libretto), G. Schirmer, 1915.
Fifty Years and Other Poems, Cornhill, 1917, AMS Press, 1975.
(Editor) The Book of American Negro Poetry, Harcourt, 1922, revised edition (publisher unknown), 1969.
(Editor) The Book of American Negro Spirituals, Viking, 1925.
(Editor) The Second Book of Negro Spirituals Viking, 1926.
God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse (poetry), illustrations by Aaron Douglas, Viking, 1927, Penguin, 1976.
Black Manhattan (nonfiction), Knopf, 1930, Arno, 1968.
Along This Way: The Autobiography of James Weldon Johnson, Viking, 1933, Da Capo, 1973.
Negro Americans, What Now? (nonfiction), Viking, 1934, Da Capo, 1973.
Saint Peter Relates an Incident: Selected Poems, Viking, 1935, AMS Press, 1974.