The Sweet Flypaper of Life
by Hughes, Langston; Roy DeCarava [Photographs]
- Used
- near fine
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good+
- Seller
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Portland, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
DeCarava had won a 1953 Guggenheim Fellowship to photograph African American life in Harlem. It was a chance meeting on a Manhattan street corner in which DeCarava showed his photographs to Hughes. Hughes was so enamored with these photographs he immediately took them to his publisher, who agreed to publish them so long as Hughes wrote accompanying text. The result, a beautiful and vibrant visual encapsulation of life in 1950s Harlem, strung together with a textual narrative by a leading light of the Harlem Renaissance.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Burnside Rare Books, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 140941732
- Title
- The Sweet Flypaper of Life
- Author
- Hughes, Langston; Roy DeCarava [Photographs]
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1955
Terms of Sale
Burnside Rare Books, ABAA
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About the Seller
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- Spine
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- Fine
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- Good+
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