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Hill and Wang, 1967. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. 96 pages, full of b/w photos. 1967 printing. Ex-university library book, light discoloring and wear; a sound binding; good shape overall. No jacket. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Inventory No: 210795. .
The Sweet Flypaper of Life. by DeCarava, Roy & Langston Hughes - 1984.
by DeCarava, Roy & Langston Hughes
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The Sweet Flypaper of Life.
by DeCarava, Roy & Langston Hughes
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Howard University, 1984. Fine in fine, faintly worn dust jacket with a slightly sunned spine in mylar cover. Full and partial page b&w photographs by Roy DeCarava.
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- Publisher Howard University, 1984.
- Date Published 1984.
- Keywords Photography, Harlem, African-American Photography, Langston Hughes.
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The Sweet Flypaper of Life
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The Sweet Flypaper of Life
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New York: First Print Press, 2018. Fourth Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Duodecimo. 5 x 7.25 in. 98 pp. Profusely illustrated with black & white reproductions of photographs. Fine in original cloth-wrapped paper-covered boards and fine pictorial dust jacket.
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The Sweet Flypaper of Life
by DeCarava, Roy and Langston Hughes
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Columbia, Pennsylvania, United States
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Washington, D.C.: Howard University Press, 1984. Hardcover. Good (Ex-Library from the library of the Visual Studies Workshop (VSW) with their sticker to the rear pastedown and a spine label at base of spine and a red library stamp on colophon; boards are edgeworn/scuffed/smudged; textblock edges are toned/scuffed/smudged/foxed; minimal marks.). No dustjacket; brown boards with yellow and white lettering on the spine; 112 pp.; richly illustrated. Reprint. Originally published in New York by Hill and Wang, 1967, copyright 1955.
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The Sweet Flypaper of Life
by Roy DeCarava and Langston Hughes
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- Used - Good, with dampstaining, toning, edgewear, and soiling to wraps. Opens easily at a few gatherings, but a sound binding. Clean wi
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New York: Simon and Schuster, 1955. First Edition. Signature-bound [duodecimo] in pictorial wraps. 98 pp. Good, with dampstaining, toning, edgewear, and soiling to wraps. Opens easily at a few gatherings, but a sound binding. Clean within.. First Printing paperback (the authors' preferred format to the simultaneous cloth) of Roy DeCarava and Langston Hughes' classic work of Harlem street life, with DeCarava's photographs interplaying with Hughes' poetic and imaginative storytelling of the subjects depicted.
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San Francisco, California, United States
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Washington: Howard University Press, 1984. Hardcover. 112p., profusely illustrated with works by the African American photographer, first printing of the Howard University Press reprint edition, very good in buckram cloth boards and unclipped dust jacket with sunned spine. Originally published in 1955 & 1967.
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The Sweet Flypaper of Life
by HUGHES, Langston and DeCARAVA, Roy
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New York: Hill & Wang, 1967. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition by this publisher. About near fine with light edgewear, some toning at the pastedown from the binder's glue and offsetting to the front free endpaper.
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The Sweet Flypaper of Life
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Washingon, DC: Howard University Press. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1984. Second Edition; Fourth Printing. Hardcover. 088258152X . B&W Photographs; Square 4to 9" - 11" tall; 112 pages; 1984 Howard University Press. Square format HC/DJ. 2nd edition, 4th printing. Snugly bound and very neat in crisp edged pictorial dust jacket. Light sun fading to jacket at spine and trace fading top edge of front cover. DeCarava's photographs reproduced handsomely. NF/VG ... Oversize book may require additional charges for expedited or international shipping. .
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THE SWEET FLYPAPER OF LIFE.
by Hughes, Langston and DeCarava, Roy
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Ione, California, United States
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New York:: Simon & Schuster,, 1955.. First edition -. Fair condition - usual rubbing and some toning to the covers, small slit across spine to front cover, not affecting the binding. . First printing, a small trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover. A picture of Harlem life in words (by Hughes) and photographs (by DeCarava), uncommon in all editions. A moving and beautiful book. 98 pp.
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The Sweet Flypaper of Life
by Decarava, Roy & Langston Hughes
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Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
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E-345: Howard University Press. Very Good. 1984. First, thus. Hardcover. Hardcover. 4to. Published by Howard University Press, Washington, DC. 1984. 112 pgs. Illustrated with Black and White Plates. First, thus. DJ has light shelf-wear present with a chip present to the crown of the spine. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. The Sweet Flypaper of Life is a "poem" about ordinary people, about teenagers around a jukebox, about children at an open fire hydrant, about riding the subway alone at night, about picket lines and artist work spaces. This renowned, life-affirming collaboration between artist Roy DeCarava and writer Langston Hughes honors in words and pictures what the authors saw, knew and felt deeply about life in their city. EB; 10.70 X 9.60 X 0.90 inches; 112 pages .
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The Sweet Flypaper of Life
by DECARAVA, Roy and Langston Hughes
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Wadsworth, Illinois, United States
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Washington D.C.: Howard, 1984. First edition thus. Hardcover. 112 pages. A larger and more accessible edition than the previous editions. Hughes provides the text for this book and with DeCarava's beautiful black and white images. A fine copy in a near fine dust jacket that has some sunning to and along the spine and edges.
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