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A Vanished World by Vishniac, Roman

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A Vanished World by Vishniac, Roman

A Vanished World

by Vishniac, Roman

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1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Near fine, first edtn/printing brown leatherette hard cover w gilt font on spine, unpaginated approx 300 pps which includes forward by Elie Wiesel and Preface and Commentary on the Photographs by Vishniac. 281 black and white photos including first and last page photos of Jewish life in central Europe 1934-39. Many of these photos are reproduced here for the first time. Copy is clean, tight, bright with only exception being foxing (few spots on first and last photo pages. Looks as if book plate was removed from front and rear feps leaving light paste residue. Dust jacket is unclipped, under plastic wrap, minimal shelf wear and ligtht rubbing. Oversized, addtl shipping with buyer approval. Poignant documentary which shows aspects of Jewish life and conditions in pre-war central Europe not typically depicted. A very important history in pictures; gift quality.
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  • Keywords JUDAICA, PHOTOGRAPHY, HISTORY, NOAMZ

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A Vanished World

A Vanished World

by Vishniac, Roman

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A Vanished World

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Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1986. Paperback. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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A Vanished World

by Roman Vishniac

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux, October 1986. Trade . Good. Good Softcover. Moderate shelfwear to covers, including bent corners. Spine has creasing. Pages clean and tight in binding. Pictures available upon request. A locally owned, independent book shop since 1984.
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A Vanished World

by Vishniac, Roman / with a foreword by Elie Wiesel

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Farrar Straus, 1984. Near fine oversize black boards in good and interior mended dust jacket. Beautiful front cover photographs and back cover. The original dust jacket is here. Wonderful historical black and white portraits and community life throughout
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A Vanished World

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Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1986. Softcover. Tight, square, uncreased spine. Clean, unmarked interior. Some areas of edge-wear and light creasing to the covers, but nice solid copy overall. Foreword by Elie Wiesel. Oversized.
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Used - Good. Good condition. (Jews, Eastern Europe, pictorial works) [ISBN 0374282471] A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.
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A Vanished World

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1983-09-01. Hardcover. Very Good. 11x0x11. [The Jews of Eastern Europe] Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Some toning to jacket. Pages unmarked. This is an oversized or heavy book, which requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US.
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A Vanished World

by Roman Vishniac

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A Vanished World

A Vanished World

by Roman Vishniac (Author, Photographer), Elie Wiesel (Foreword)

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NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1986. reprint. Softcover. Very Good/None. Softcover, 192 pages. Roman Vishniac's A Vanished World is an extraordinary record of the lives of German and Eastern European Jews in the years immediately preceding the Holocaust. Vishniac, a Russian Jew, began to take photographs of village life during World War I, when Russian Jews who lived near the front were accused of being German spies and were deported to Siberia. He later moved to Germany, where he witnessed the horrible events of Kristallnacht and the anti-Jewish legislation that allowed Hitler to declare his enemies stateless and therefore unworthy of international protection. As we study Vishniac's photographs--a surviving fraction of the more than 16,000 he took--we are aware that we are seeing the faces of those soon to die, witnessing a world that has all but perished. Yet that world, of shops and schools, of busy streets and quiet farms, remains with us if only as a ghostly memory, thanks in part to Vishniac's… Read More
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A Vanished World

by Vishniac,Roman

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Farrar Straus and Giroux, 1983. Book Club Edition . Hardback. Fine/Very Good. States first edition but is probably a book club no price on dw flap one short tear to the bottom edge of the dw front panel. Previous owners embossed seal on front free end paper
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