Roman Vishniac

11 (of 12) photographs from The Vanished World (Roslyn Heights: Witkin-Berley, 1977), each mounted, signed in ink on the mount, the portfolio label on the reverse, 1936-38, printed in 1977; together with printed title, illustrated plate list, and colophon, signed and editioned.  Folio, brown pictorial buckram clamshell box, artist's proof 4 in a total edition of 55 (11)

These photographs are in generally excellent condition except where noted. 1. 'Entrance to the Ghetto, Cracow, 1938' is missing. 3. 'The Face of Wisdom, Cracow, 1936': There is a light fingerprint on the center-right mount edge. 6. 'At the Open Fire, Carpathian Ruthenia, 1938': There is minor edge chipping. Apparent in raking light in the upper-left corner of the image is a tiny droplet deposit of indeterminate nature. 8. 'Heder, Slonim, Russia, 1938': There is a minor loss of emulsion measuring less than one cm. in the lower right corner of the image. On the reverse of the colophon is light fingerprint soiling. The folio is in generally very good condition with stray light linear marks and rubbing at the extremities.
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The plates included are as follows:

2. One of the People of the Book, Warsaw

3. The Face of Wisdom, Cracow

4. Peddlers Transformed into Beggars by the Boycott

5. Grandfather and Granddaughter, Lublin

6. At the Open Fire, Carpathian Ruthenia

7. Jewish Peasant, Carpatho-Ukraine

8. Heder, Slonim, Russia

9. Three Student School, Carpathian Ruthenia

10. The Only Flowers of her Youth, Warsaw

11. One Room Apartment-Workshop, Warsaw

12. Synagogue Court, Vilna