A Vanished World

Vishniac, Roman. A Vanished World. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1983. Reprint. Oblong 4to. Unpaginated. (c.180pp.) Brown cloth with facsimile of Vishniac’s signature blind-stamped onto front board, gold lettering on spine. In original pictorial dust jacket. Profusely illustrated with 180 reproductions of photographs in b/w. Foreword by Elie Wiesel. “A Vanished World is the first book to offer a comprehensive selection of Roman Vishniac’s celebrated photographs of the Jew of Eastern Europe. Taken between 1934 and 1939, as Vishniac explored cities and villages, these photographs preserve for posterity unforgettable images of Jewish life.” Very good condition. vg. Hardcover. (22076) $65