DeCarava, Roy and Langston Hughes. The Sweet Flypaper of Life. Photographs by Roy DeCarava. Signed Copy Regina Vater

Regina Vater

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DeCarava, Roy and Langston Hughes. The Sweet Flypaper of Life. Photographs by Roy DeCarava. Signed Copy Regina VaterHoward University Press, 1984.[ The first major publication by photographer Roy DeCarava, first issued in 1955. DeCarava was the first African American photographer to receive a Guggenheim fellowship.] First Howard University edition. Copies available: Near fine with near fine dust jacket, discreet blind stamp of previous owner on flyleaf. Fine in very good protected dust jacket with wear along top edge and spine, which is slightly faded. Inscribed to