A Vanished World
by Vishniac, Roman
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket lightly wrinkled and rubbed.
- ISBN 10
- 0374282471
- ISBN 13
- 9780374282479
- Seller
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Selkirk, New York, United States
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About This Item
NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket lightly wrinkled and rubbed.. 1984. Second Printing. Hardcover. 0374282471 . Foreword by Elie Wiesel. Signed "Roman Edith Vishniac" on front flyleaf. Edith was Vishniac's wife. 179 photo reproductions. This book represents but a fraction of the photographs of Jewish village life which Vishniac took on various trips to Ruthenia, Poland, Czechoslovakia and other parts of Eastern Europe in the 1930s. Vishniac sewed many of the negatives in the lining of his clothes when he came to the US in 1940, and others were safeguarded by his father while in hiding in France during World War II. Vishniac died in 1990. ; Square 4to 9" - 11" tall; 179 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Old Saratoga Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 26492
- Title
- A Vanished World
- Author
- Vishniac, Roman
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket lightly wrinkled and rubbed.
- Edition
- Second Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0374282471
- ISBN 13
- 9780374282479
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1984
- Keywords
- 0374282471, Eastern European Jews, HOLOCAUST
- Bookseller catalogs
- Signed By the Author; Judaica; Photography;
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Old Saratoga Books
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Selkirk, New York
About Old Saratoga Books
Old Saratoga Books owners Dan and Rachel Jagareski have been selling books since 1996. After running an open shop for twenty years in the historic village of Schuylerville we now sell books online and at book fairs. We are members of the Independent Online Booksellers Association (IOBA). Our specialties include books about history, science, cooking, children's books, and the arts. Rachel is a graduate of the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar and has attended Rare Book School in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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