The Sweet Flypaper of Life -- First Printing by HUGHES, Langston with Roy DeCarava - 1955

(New York): (Simon and Schuster), 1955. First Edition. Stiff paper wraps. Very Good. 12mo. Pp. 98. Paginated continuously from the front cover as the first page. Profusely illustrated throughout with Roy DeCarava black and white photos. Bound in stiff paper wraps with the first page of Hughes' narrative printed on the front cover beneath a DeCarava photo. Cover a bit age-toned and rubbed. Now housed in a clear archival jacket. The first printing of this exuberant celebration of 1950s life in Harlem. The serendipitous collaboration is a perfect marriage of DeCarava's poignant photography and Hughes' perceptive and poetic vernacular prose, sometimes serving as captions, sometimes as storytelling.