BESSIE, ALVAH

The Symbol

London, Sydney, Toronto, The Bodley Head. 1966. Hardcover. Used, Hardcover. Good condition. Dust jacket is protected with a clear plastic wrapper. Jacket is worn and grubby, with several marks, small nicks, tears and bumps. Lower leading corner of front flap is clipped. Hardcover spine ends and upper front leading corner are a little bumped. Page block is foxed and has a few grubby marks. Initials penned on FEP. Pages are clean, and the text is clear. AF. Good/Acceptable.

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Book number: 450973

Catalogue: Literature

Bessie, Alvah

The Symbol

New York, NY : Random House, 1966. 8vo. 305pp. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very Good, very minor creasing and scuffing on cover, slight sunning on covers. 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. .

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Book number: 14-0010

Bessie, Alvah,

The Symbol.

New York: Random House, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Bookplate; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 305 pages. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket.

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Book number: 7235

Catalogue: Literature