May 14, 2009 - Sale 2180

Sale 2180 - Lot 54

Price Realized: $ 840
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
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, small spots of foxing; photo-pictorial dust jacket, slight rubbing along spine. Roth 138; Parr/Badger I 242; Hasselblad 160; Auer 357. first edtion.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1955

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From the Library of Jean Feiwel and Barry Denenberg.