Dec 11, 2012 - Sale 2298

Sale 2298 - Lot 261

Price Realized: $ 960
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
DECARAVA, ROY.
The Sweet Flypaper of Life.

Story by Langston Hughes. Illustrated with reproductions of DeCarava's lyrical photographs of Harlem. 8vo, blue paper-covered boards over black-stamped white cloth; photo-pictorial dust jacket, small tears to edges. Roth 138; Parr/Badger I 242; Hasselblad 160; Auer 357. first edition, signed and inscribed by hughes in 1955.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1955