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DECARAVA, Roy. The Sweet Flypaper of Life. Text by Langston Hughes. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1955. 8° (180 x 125 mm). 141 black and white photographs. Original white cloth-backed blue paper-covered boards, original photo-illustrated dust-jacket (cloth spine lightly spotted, dust-jacket with wear and short tears at the spine ends, light spotting, endpapers spotted, remnants of label removed from the front endpaper).
DECARAVA, Roy. The Sweet Flypaper of Life. Text by Langston Hughes. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1955. 8° (180 x 125 mm). 141 black and white photographs. Original white cloth-backed blue paper-covered boards, original photo-illustrated dust-jacket (cloth spine lightly spotted, dust-jacket with wear and short tears at the spine ends, light spotting, endpapers spotted, remnants of label removed from the front endpaper).

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DECARAVA, Roy. The Sweet Flypaper of Life. Text by Langston Hughes. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1955. 8° (180 x 125 mm). 141 black and white photographs. Original white cloth-backed blue paper-covered boards, original photo-illustrated dust-jacket (cloth spine lightly spotted, dust-jacket with wear and short tears at the spine ends, light spotting, endpapers spotted, remnants of label removed from the front endpaper).

FIRST EDITION. THE RARE HARDCOVER ISSUE OF DECARAVA'S FIRST BOOK, in an excellent example of a dust-jacket usually found in poor condition. 'It is one of the most successful collaborations between a great writer and a great photographer ever published' (101 Books). 'A publishing success and... an important step forward' (The Photobook). Auer, p.357; 101 Books, pp.138-39; The Open Book, pp.160-61; The Photobook, vol. I, p. 242; Regards à travers le livre 108 ('remarkable photographs').