The Sweet Flypaper of Life

Reprint, 1984. Hardback in dust jacket. 112pp. Slight wear to jacket; spine sunned. Otherwise fine. Originally published in 1955 by Simon and Schuster; this is the 1984 reprint of this important book with photographs by Roy DeCarava. We see Harlem through the eyes of a grandmother, Sister Mary Bradley. Her narrative is put into words by writer Langston Hughes. A fantastic photo-documentary of life in Harlem in the early 1950s.