Dec 11, 2008 - Sale 2166

Sale 2166 - Lot 67

Price Realized: $ 900
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
WITH DECARAVA'S SIGNATURE AND INSCRIPTION DECARAVA, ROY. The Sweet Flypaper of Life. Story by Langston Hughes. With gravure reproductions of DeCarava's rich and poignant photographs depicting Harlem life. 8vo, blue paper-covered boards with a white spine; cancelled library stamp on front free endpaper; photo-pictorial dust jacket, tape residue on inside flaps (extends to pastedowns). Roth 138; Parr/Badger I 242; Hasselblad 160; Auer 357. first edition, signed by decarava. New York: Simon & Schuster, (1955)

Additional Details

DeCarava's signature and inscription "Best Wishes, Roy DeCarava and my friend Langston," with additional notations regarding this volume laid in.

From the Library of JoAnn Frank.