Item #63-8479 The Lookout's Letter. Signed by author. Numbered 128 of 500 by author on verso of title page. First Edition. Cornel Lengyel, Tamas Konok, illustr.

The Lookout's Letter. Signed by author. Numbered 128 of 500 by author on verso of title page. First Edition.

Georgetown, CA: Dragon's Teeth Press, 1971. 8vo. Soft Covers Very Good with some scribbles to covers. 60 pp. Illustrated. Inked correction to poem "X" on page 25, possibly in author's hand.

Provenance: from the Estate of Judy Stone (1924 –2017), The San Francisco Chronicle’s movie critic who for two decades was a passionate and articulate advocate for the world of cinema outside Hollywood. Judy Stone started at the San Francisco Chronicle in 1961, putting in 10 years as editor of the Datebook section. She began reviewing films for the paper in 1971, favoring arthouse films.

She was the youngest of four politically minded children whose eldest brother was the great reporter and gadfly I. F. Stone.

She won the Novikoff Award given for "enhancing the public's appreciation of world cinema.” Among her publications are “The Mystery of B. Traven” and "Eye on the World,” a collection of her interviews with filmmakers from the 1960s to the 1990s. Item #63-8479

Price: $35.00

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