My Passage from India: A Filmmaker's Journey from Bombay to Hollywood. (Presentation copy: signed by author Ismail Merchant to Judy Stone with the inscription: “With much admiration”.)
by Ismail Merchant
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New York: Viking Studio, 2002.. Autographed. 8vo. 149 pp. Very Good+. Hard Cover. Yellow cloth covered boards, with gilt lettering on spine. Dust Jacket Very Good. Top corner bumped. Color and B&W plates throughout. Signed on half title page.ISBN: 0670031631 9780670031634.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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- Title
- My Passage from India: A Filmmaker's Journey from Bombay to Hollywood. (Presentation copy: signed by author Ismail Merchant to Judy Stone with the inscription: “With much admiration”.)
- Author
- Ismail Merchant
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0670031631
- ISBN 13
- 9780670031634
- Publisher
- New York: Viking Studio, 2002.
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, U.s.a.
- This edition first published
- 2002
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