The David Levine Album of Drawings from The New York Review of Books.
NY: New York Review of Books, 1965. 4to. Soft Covers, Gray Portfolio of 12 Drawings printed on Laid Paper, Very Good with minor creasing to portfolio cover.
Contents: W.H. Auden; President de Gaulle; Alexander Pushkin; Dame Edith Sitwell; Jack Kerouac; President Johnson; Pablo Picasso; Rupert Brooke; Pope John XXIII; Charles Baudelaire; Gunter Grass; and Sigmund Freud.
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 #63-8664
Price: $50.00