A Vanished World
by Vishniac, Roman
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- vg
- Seller
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Santa Monica, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1983. Reprint. Hardcover. vg. 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.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 22076
- Title
- A Vanished World
- Author
- Vishniac, Roman
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - vg
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus & Giroux
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1983
- Keywords
- Poland, pre-war Eastern Europe, Lodz, Warsaw, Eastern European Jews, Judaica, Eastern Europe, Jewish art
Terms of Sale
Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
Biblio member since 2009
Santa Monica, California
About Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
We offer a broad selection of rare, out-of-print and antiquarian books with an emphasis on photography, architecture, art, Judaica, Bibles, Weimar Germany and the Third Reich, modernism, Olympic Games, erotica and foreign-language works, especially German, Hebrew, Polish and Yiddish. We also provide appraisal, auction, consulting and rental services.
Glossary
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- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- Facsimile
- An exact copy of an original work. In books, it refers to a copy or reproduction, as accurate as possible, of an original...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...