Mar 26, 2015 - Sale 2377

Sale 2377 - Lot 374

Price Realized: $ 406
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
LANGSTON HUGHES AND ROY DE CARAVA. Sweet Flypaper of Life. Illustrated from photographs by Roy de Carava, text by Langston Hughes. Small 8vo, original cloth-backed black boards; dust jacket present but worn. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1955
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inscribed by de caravan to the noted black bibliophile clarence holte. Holte (1908-1993) was a pioneer advertising executive with BBD&O in New York. He is better known as a premier book collector who sold his library of over 7000 volumes to Ahmadu Bello University in Nigeria in 1977.