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The Sweet Flypaper of Life - Langston Hughes (1955) TRUE HC 1ST EDITION!

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Management number 806331 Release Date 2025/07/07 List Price $180.00 Model Number 806331
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Hardcover/ no DJ; Fair (to possibly Good) condition. First Edition- 1955; Stated First Printing; same year on title page. 98 pages, 7 x 5 , b/w photo illus. by Roy Decarava. Ex library w/ inkstamps on top & bottom of text block, 7 digit stamped no. in bottom right corner of half-title page- no other library marks. Binding of black paper over board covers & white cloth spine is Good+: square & shows only light rubbing, 2 small bumped & frayed cover corners at top right. Spine just a bit tanned, all lettering crisp & intact. Copy actually displays well. Fixed endpapers have remains of side edges of DJ glued to them (basically white on white). Crude & light printing, Honesty Pays Big (to me, kind of adds to copy) in gray semi-indelible pencil (I think) at top of front free endpaper. Front endpapers also have 2 scribbles (1/2 to 1 dia.) in light green colored pencil. Title page has same green marking (3/4 ) at right side- NOT touching any printed words. Page 3 has just a light trace of


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