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Book Description: Sweet Flypaper of Life. New York, Simon & Schuster 1955. Hardcover. First edition, first printing of this classic collaboration with text by Langston Hughes and photographs by Roy DeCarava. Cited in Parr & Badger, vol. 1, p. 242: and Roth, Book of 101 Books, pp. 138-139.

Book Condition: Near Fine Minus (NF -), tight binding with moderate foxing to endpapers. In a Near Fine price-clipped dust jacket with light foxing to rear, light shelf wear to edges and corners, creasing along spine edges, one 1/4" closed tear at bottom front fold, and two 1/8" closed tears with fold on top rear (both are very small). Overall however this is a very solid, clean and tight copy of this scarce and collectible first edition hardcover - especially so with the complete original dust jacket.

The Sweet Flypaper of Life describes, in words and pictures, what the authors have seen and known and felt deeply about their people. Life in Harlem may be hard: getting up each morning and going to work, knowing that today will be like yesterday and tomrorow. Yet there are rewards, moments--a man walking in the sun, a woman laughing, couples in the park, the watering of a garden on a window sill, a father's touch, a child's glance. 'We've had so many books about how bad life is,' Langston Hughes says. 'Maybe it's time to have one showing how good it is. 

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