DeCarava, Roy and Langston Hughes. The Sweet Flypaper of Life. Photographs by Roy DeCarava.

Howard 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 artist and photographer Ken Kaplowitz and SIGNED by DeCarava on title page, 3-22-1986. (Kaplowitz taught art and photography for 49 years at The College of New Jersey.) Also signed by Kaplowitz on front flyleaf.