Add this copy of The Sweet Flypaper of Life to cart. $39.86, fair condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Atlanta rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Austell, GA, UNITED STATES, published by Hill and Wang.
Add this copy of The Sweet Flypaper of Life to cart. $45.00, good condition, Sold by Goodbar Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Cottage Grove, OR, UNITED STATES, published 1967 by Hill and Wang.
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Good. Cover design by The Group. 'A pioneering exercise in merging image and text, ' according to critic Sean O'Hagan, this book was conceived after DeCarava took his portfolio of Harlem street photography to show the elderly Hughes, and the poet agreed to contribute a fictional text to accompany it. Simon and Schuster's original treatment of the material was disappointing to the photographer, who called it a 'puny little book that you actually could put into your back pocket', and it took a decade-plus for Hill and Wang to produce this slightly larger edition, which was released shortly after Hughes's death. Tight, square spine has some sunning. Blacked-out former owner name to the half-title, but interior is else clean and unmarked. Some areas of gentle rubbing, toning, creasing, and edge-wear to the covers. 96 pp. Featured Rare & Collectible.
Add this copy of The Sweet Flypaper of Life to cart. $47.25, good condition, Sold by Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Marietta, PA, UNITED STATES, published 1984 by Howard University Press.
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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... 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.
Add this copy of The Sweet Flypaper of Life to cart. $149.95, very good condition, Sold by Sequitur Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Boonsboro, MD, UNITED STATES, published 1967 by Hill and Wang.
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Very Good. Size: 8x5x0; [From the library of Dr. Ralph Gomes, Howard University. ] Hardcover and dust jacket. Tears to jacket. Dust jacket in protective mylar cover. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Light foxing to top edge. Pages unmarked. 96 p., ill., 21 cm. Born in New York City's Harlem neighborhood in 1919, Roy DeCarava came of age during the Harlem Renaissance, when artistic activity and achievement among African Americans flourished across the literary, musical, dramatic, and visual arts. DeCarava did not take up photography until the late 1940s, after working in painting and making prints for the posters division of the Works Progress Administration (WPA). He used his camera to produce striking studies of everyday black life in Harlem, capturing the varied textures of the neighborhood and the creative efflorescence of the Harlem Renaissance. Resisting explicit politicization, DeCarava used photography to counter what he described as "black people, not being portrayed in a serious and artistic way." Dr. Gomes was a professor at Howard University for 49 years in sociology and criminology. He was also a former Olympic athlete, representing Guyana in the 1960 Rome summer Olympics. Besides his scholarly work, Gomes was active in the black liberation movement. He had an impressive and deep collection of black art, historical advertising and iconography that spoke of the passage of black people and how they sought to record their life stories. His collection spanned from slavery, to antebellum life, to Jim Crow, to the Harlem Renaissance, to sport, to the civil rights movement.
Add this copy of Sweet Flypaper of Life to cart. $165.00, very good condition, Sold by Kalapuya Books rated 2.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Cottage Grove, OR, UNITED STATES.
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Very good. Hill and Wang, 1969, 3rd. printing, softcover, reading crease, bumped at top and bottom of spine, tight, square, free of writing and marking, book is in nice shape and has great photographs. 96 pages. Poetry/Arts.
Add this copy of The Sweet Flypaper of Life to cart. $400.00, very good condition, Sold by Moe's Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Berkeley, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1967 by Hill and Wang.
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Very good in Good jacket. Tall case. First Hill and Wang printing. Inscribed by deCarava on a slip of paper taped to the front endpaper, dated 1986. Dust jacket worn and chipped. Name written on front endpaper.
Add this copy of The Sweet Flypaper of Life to cart. $475.00, like new condition, Sold by modlitbooks rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from San Francisco, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1955 by Simon & Schuster.
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Fine in good dust jacket. True first edition, first printing, the preferred issue in publisher's cloth and dust jacket of this classic title. A nearly fine clean tight unmarked copy with a small faint spot to front free endpage presumably from a former price sticker. Unclipped dust jacket has chips to the head and foot of spine, with some smaller chips and closed tears to edges, some inelegant touch-ups by black markers to dust jacket and an inscription blacked out to front flap.
Add this copy of The Sweet Flypaper of Life to cart. $2,250.00, very good condition, Sold by Raptis Rare Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Palm Beach, FL, UNITED STATES, published by Simon & Schuster.
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First edition of the classic collaboration between Roy DeCarava and Langston Hughes. Small octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by Langston Hughes on the front free endpaper, "Especially for Lucian Stanton whose photographs I very much enjoyed seeing-Sincerely-Langston Hughes New York Feb. 23, 1960." An excellent example in the original dust jacket. Roth 101, Parr & Badger, The Photobook I, 242; The Open Book, 160. The hardcover is much more uncommon than the wrapper edition. "Acknowledged as the most influential black writer of his generation, and as one of the greatest American poets of all time here composed a fictional story to accompany DeCarava's images, creating a lyrical tale about imaginary characters to go with photographs of real people" (Roth, 138). Hailed as "an important step forward" in the history of photobooks, Sweet Flypaper of Life proved especially significant in its "design, featuring a pacy, cinematic style. It is also a book that had more impact in its cheaper paperback edition, since, radically, Hughes' text begins on the cover" (Parr & Badger II: 242). "The book won two awards, received critical acclaim in The New York Times Book Review sold out its first edition, and was reprinted many times. It is one of the most successful collaborations between a great writer and a great photographer ever published" (Roth, 138).
