Apr 14, 2022 - Sale 2601

Sale 2601 - Lot 142

Price Realized: $ 1,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
ROY DECARAVA.
A group of 6 signed books, including his iconic The Sweet Flypaper of Life and important later monographs.
A selection of titles from DeCarava, all of which are signed, and some inscribed. Small folios (4) and 8vos (2), cloth with photo-pictorial dust jackets (2) and wrappers (3).

The Sweet Flypaper of Life. By Roy DeCarava and Langston Hughes. One signed in 1977 and the other signed and inscribed in 1976. Hill and Wang, 1967 (two copies) * Roy DeCarava, Photographs Signed. The Friends of Photography, 1981 * The Sound I Saw. The Jazz Photographs of Roy DeCarava. Signed. The Studio Museum of Harlem, 1983 * The Sweet Flypaper of Life. Signed and inscribed. Howard University Press, 1988 * Roy DeCarava, A Retrospective. Signed and inscribed from DeCarava, Peter Galassi, and Sherry Turner DeCarava. The Museum of Modern Art, 1996

Additional Details

From the Estate of Evelyne Z. Daitz, New York