VISHNIAC, ROMAN (1897-1990) "The Vanished World." A portfolio with 12 (of 12) of Vishniac's photographs of Eastern and Central European Jews prior to the Holocaust. Toned silver prints, sizes ranging from 15 1/2x15 3/8 to 18 3/8x15 1/8 inches (39.4x39.1 to 46.7x38.4 cm.), each on a mount measuring 28x22 inches (71.1x55.9 cm.), with Vishniac's signature, in ink, on each mount recto, and with a portfolio label with the print number and edition number, in ink, on mount verso. Double elephant folio, photo-pictorial and stamped brown clamshell box; Vishniac's signature and edition notation AP3, in ink, on the colophon, which is in a folder at the front; contents loose as issued. 1936-38; printed 1977
"The Only Flowers of Her Youth, Warsaw," 1938 "Entrance to the Ghetto, Cracow," 1938 "One of the People of the Book, Warsaw," 1938 "The Face of Wisdom, Cracow," 1936 "Peddlers Transformed into Beggars by the Boycott," 1938 "Grandfather and Granddaughter, Lublin," 1937 "At the Open Fire, Carpathian Ruthenia," 1938 "Jewish Peasant, Carpatho-Ukraine," 1937 "Heder, Slonim, Russia," 1938 "Three Student School, Carpathian Ruthenia," 1938 "One Room Apartment-Workshop, Warsaw," 1936 "Synagogue Court, Vilna," 1938.
