Roy DeCarava Langston Hughes The Sweet Flypaper Of Life 1984 HC DJ Howard Univ

Description: Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE The Sweet Flypaper of Life Roy DeCarava and Langston Hughes 1984 Howard University Press edition Hardcover with the Dust Jacket Washington, D.C. Howard University Press. 1984. Second printing. Hardcover. With the dust jacket. Text in English. Very good plus in a very good dust jacket. A later edition of the classic view of life in Harlem in the 1940s and '50s as seen through the eyes of Sister Mary Bradley. The images by DeCarava and prose by Hughes are wed in a perfect union to tell the story of ordinary people who work and play, love and hate, marry and divorce, raise children and let them go, and who cope extraordinarily. Presented as a fictional vignette seen through the eyes of a feisty, widowed woman, delighted to find her "feet caught in the sweet flypaper of life" and "...dogged if (she) want(s) to get loose." Photographs by Roy DeCarava and text by Langston Hughes. 112 pages. 9.5 inches x 10.75 inches. A larger edition than the previous editions. Spectacular duo-toned b&w plates throughout. All the photographs are printed beautifully in black & white. The boards have minimal wear. Clean and bright. Internally, personal inscription to the first free endpaper. Hinges sound. Binding tight. Bright and clean photographs. Hint of tanning to page edges. The dust jacket has light wear. Band of sunning to the top and side edges DJ front cover. Few scratches and scuff marks visible in the light. Price clipped. A great copy.

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