Dec 11, 2008 - Sale 2166

Sale 2166 - Lot 68

Price Realized: $ 390
?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 gravure reproductions of DeCarava's poignant photographs of Harlem. 8vo, photo-pictorial wrappers. Roth 138; Parr/Badger I 242; Hasselblad 160; Auer 357. first edition. (New York): (Simon & Schuster), (1955)

Additional Details

with--Roy DeCarava, Photographs. Edited by James Alinder. Introduction by Sherry Turner DeCarava. Illustrated with reproductions of DeCarava's intimate photographs. Large 4to, black-stamped cloth; photo-pictorial dust jacket, lightly edgeworn; housed in a custom-made clamshell box. first edition, signed by decarava. Friends of Photography, (1981).


From the Library of Jean Feiwel and Barry Denenberg.