Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Taylor, Deems. Walt Disney's Fantasia. Simon & Schuster, New York City, 1940.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Brown boards [10]+11-158p,illus,color,pep Interior vg. Backstrip has been reglued 1" tear tail Front board pulled from interior Some light pencil interior Some pencil rear board
Seller: Samuel Lasenby Bookseller, Corona del Mar, CA, U.S.A.
Taylor, Deems. Walt Disney's Fantasia. Simon and Schuster, 1940.
Price: US$106.21 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: US orders ship with signature confirmation. 1940 oversize hardcover 2nd printing with illustrated endpapers. No dj, a lot of soil/foxing and light fraying on cover, corners bumped, separation starting between pages 24-5 and 56-7, pages tanned, soil on edge and some pages, musty smell if you go into the spine, else text clean, binding still good. Oversize book extra shipping charges will apply for international and priority orders as this will not fit into a flat rate envelope.
Seller: Dave's Books, Brooklyn, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$135.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 4to. First edition. Dampstaining to top edges of leaves and edges of text block, as well as to top edges of dust jacket flaps and verso. Slight damage to rear hinge. Chipping to d.j. edges. Mild abrasion marks to head of d.j. spine and to d.j. rear panel. VG/VG.
Seller: Strand Book Store, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Second printing. 13" x 9.5", pp 157, (1), illustrated in color. Original beige cloth lettered in blue. No dyst jacket. Corners bumped, very slight soiling to cloth, a little fraying at head of spine, tiny crease to corner of one tipped-in color plate (p. 65). Binding sound, text and endpapers unmarked.
Seller: Walkabout Books, ABAA, Curtis, WA, U.S.A.
Taylor, Deems. WALT DISNEY'S FANTASIA .. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1940., 1940.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hardcover, no dust jacket, front cover spotted and soiled, corners bumped, spine ends frayed and bent in, light smudges to back cover, front cover slightly loose, three or four 1/4" spots of fading and address label to front free endpaper, light soi l to title page, contents in good condition, no tears, writing, soil or other detractions other than very very light toning to some pages.
Seller: Collectors Cabinet, Teaneck, NJ, U.S.A.
Taylor, Deems. Walt Disney's Fantasia. Simon and Schuster, New York, 1940.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: Forward by Leopold Stokowski. Chapters on each section of music used for the film, with accompanying color illustrations, some tipped-in plates, 158 pages. Cover edges and spine foxed, name and address penciled on front paste-down, covers slightly soiled. Text block in Very Good condition.; 9 3/4 x 13 "
Seller: Chequamegon Books, Washburn, WI, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: Quarto, 158 pages. In Very Good minus condition. Bound in tan cloth with blue lettering. Boards have light sunning to spine, bending to spine edges, and light shelfwear. Textblock has splitting to gutter between pages 72 and 73. Shelved Case 14. 1376159. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
Taylor, Deems. Walt Disney's Fantasia. Simon & Schuster, New York, 1940.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Description: Very good. Small tear on front pastedown. Previous owner signature neatly on front free endsheet, along with a small erasure on upper right corner. Slightly soft hinges. Contents bright and clear. Lavishly illustrated with beautiful artwork taken from the movie; many of the color plates are tipped in Fair. Extremities creased and chipped with small pieces lacking at spine ends and along lower edge. Panels rubbed, but jacket still in one piece Beige cloth with blue ink stamped titles
Seller: Weller Book Works, A.B.A.A., Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
Deems Taylor. Walt Disney s Fantasia. Simon and Schuster, 1940.
Price: US$288.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Deems Taylor, Walt Disney s Fantasia, NY: Simon and Schuster, 1940. With a Foreword by Leopold Stokowski. Illustrated throughout. Large cloth hardback without dust jacket. First edition. The cover is worn, pages are in near fine condition. One of the several glued-in drawings is missing (p. 117). This book is looking for a good home.
Seller: Paines Pen, Guerneville, CA, U.S.A.
TAYLOR, Deems.. Fantasia.. Simon and Schuster, New York, 1940.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: 157 pp. Illustrated throughout in color and black and white. Folio, publisher's cloth in illustrated dust jacket. First edition. The cloth is slightly tanned at the extremities; tight and sound in a price-clipped dust jacket with several chips and clear tape repairs on verso to several significant tears.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Walt Disney and Deems Taylor. Fantasia. Simon & Schuster, New York, 1940.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: a near fine copy with half of the orignial dust jacket, the other half in facsimile, under mylar brodartSimon and Schuster, New York, 1940. Pictorial Cloth. Book Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Walt Disney (illustrator). 1st Edition. Deems Taylor with Walt Disney and Leopold Stokowski. Foreword. In original tan pictorial cloth in blue Disney pictorial blue dj half missing, hence the low price, else near fine. under mylar brodart. Basis for the famous film of 1940. A milestone in cinema, a poor remake occured in 2000 marred by poor dialogue and poor acting and well no Disney, no Taylor and no Stokowski. This is the original book with the text by Taylor and the art by Disney. Size: Folio
Seller: Hirschfeld Galleries, Saint Louis, MO, U.S.A.
Deems Taylor.. Walt Disney's Fantasia.. Simon & Schuster, New York, NY, 1940.
Price: US$360.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition (1940), unstated, in accordance with Simon and Schuster's customary practice at the time of publication. Very Good in Good DJ: The Book shows moderate shelf-soiling to the lower extremities with a touch of crimping to the heel of the backstripa small patch of soiling to the bottom edge of the text block at the outside edge; moderate spine lean; a few flecks of foxing at the top edge of the front panel and a bit of soiling or perhaps dusting to the upper front panel; the top edge of the text block is faintly dust-darkened. The binding remains quite secure; the text is clean. Free of creased or dog-eared pages in the text. Free of underlining, hi-lighting, notations, or marginalia. Free of any ownership names, dates, addresses, notations, inscriptions, stamps, plates, or labels. A handsome copy, structurally sound and tightly bound, showing mild wear and unobtrusive cosmetic imperfections. A sturdy, presentable copy. The DJ shows fairly heavy wear; some loss to chipping and rubbing at extremities, which also show numerous short tears and a six-inch closed tear at the top edge of the rear panel and a one inch tear at the bottom of same; the price has been clipped; mylar-protected. A serviceable but somewhat tatty DJ. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. Folio. (13.05 x 10 x 1.25 inches). 158 pages. Foreward by Leopold Stokowski. Greyish cream cloth lettered in blue. Illustrated endpapers. Illustrated throughout with numerous full-color illustrations and with designs in black & white; 15 tipped-in colored plates. Decorated endpapers. Weight: 61 ounces. Hardback with DJ. First Edition (1940), unstated, in accordance with Simon and Schuster's customary practice at the time of publication.
Seller: Black Cat Hill Books, Oregon City, OR, U.S.A.
TAYLOR, Deems. Walt Disney's Fantasia. Simon & Schuster, New York, 1940.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: Foreword by Leopold Stokowski. Illustrated in color, including several tipped in plates, and black & white. 158 pages. 4to, grey cloth: minor fraying to spine ends, dust wrapper: tear with some loss at head of spine, edges lightly worn and chipped. New York: Simon & Schuster, (1940). First edition. Internally fine, a very good(+) copy in a very good(-) dust wrapper.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, folio (13" x 9 3/4"), pp. (1-10), 11-157, (1), color illustrations throughout. Original blue lettered gray cloth in original color pictorial dust jacket. Very clean near fine copy in a very good dust jacket not price clipped @ $3.75 with some minor chipping & fraying. Sheets clean, unmarked, complete. H9149
Seller: J & J House Booksellers, ABAA, Kennett Square, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Mild spine wear else a clean copy of the First Edition in an attractive jacket with some edge wear, a short tear to the front panel.
Seller: Gerry Kleier Rare Books, Martinez, CA, U.S.A.
[DISNEY, WALT] TAYLOR, DEEMS.. Walt Disney's Fantasia. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1940, 1940.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Very good in a good to very good dust jacket. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
Seller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc, Newton, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: Illustrated by B&W throughout with 16 tipped in color in book; 2 color line drawings and B&W photographs throughout with 6 color stills (4 from book) in program. First (SD) edition. 2 volumes. Artistic One-of-a-Kind binding by Karen Thompson Bullock in J. Hewit acid free Cawburn goat in 4 inlaid colors, title stamped topboard, plastered with gilt, silver and black star decorations, Dodin marbled endpapers. 4to. pp. 158 (sporadically numbered); [26]. Near Fine. Faint small embossed stamp on several pages of book, overall toning. Foreword by conductor Leopold [Anthony] Stokowski (1882-1977) who was married to Gloria Vanderbuilt. Program cover has toning and trace rear sunning, surface smudges and edgewear. Internally near fine with facsimile signatures of Stokowski and Disney with highlights on all musical pieces and composers in the film.
Seller: OLD WORKING BOOKS & Bindery (Est. 1994), West Brookfield, MA, U.S.A.
Taylor, Deems.. WALT DISNEY'S FANTASIA.. SIMON AND SCHUSTER., NY, 1940.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Near fine in good priceclipped DJ. (Neat previous owner's inscription on front endpaper. Tiny puncture hole along gutter on rear cloth cover. Neat previous owner's inscription on front endpaper. 1/2"-inch chip at crest of spine on DJ. 1/4"-inch chipping at base of spine. Shallow chipping at upper edge of front cover & to lesser degree on rear cover of DJ. Without loss to titles. Several edge tears. Clear tape repair on interior of DJ. ) Clean tight copy.
Seller: WAVERLEY BOOKS ABAA, Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
Walt Disney and Deems Taylor. Fantasia. Simon and Schuster, New York, 1940.
Price: US$800.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Folio. Original cream cloth, very good, some light wear, with a good to very good full dust jacket not price clipped. 1st ed 1st issue with text by Deems Taylor, art by Walt Disney studios and music direction by Leopold Stokowski. dust jacket is under a mylar brodart cover jackets has small chips and two tape traces else very good minus, hard to find this jacket at all. Overall very good. A milestone in cinema, music and animation wed, and what music, from Bach to Schubert's Ave Maria
Seller: Hirschfeld Galleries, Saint Louis, MO, U.S.A.
Taylor, Deems; Disney, Walt. Walt Disney's Fantasia. Simon and Schuster, New York, 1940.
Price: US$950.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: FIRST EDITION. As New (Immaculate, mint, pristine condition) Folio (approx. 12 inches to 15 inches tall) Morocco Leather Binding Folio. 1st edition. Fine in a full crushed levant morocco inlaid custom binding by Grace Bindings in full dark blue. Rare custom Fantasia with Fantasia theme binding. Unique item. Unique book. Pictorial endsheets. Profusely colour illustrated. The backstrip and titlepiece from the original binding bound into the endsheets. 158 pages complete. SCARCE ITEM. BUY WITH CONFIDENCE! PRICES HAVE BEEN REDUCED! Offered by Hirschfeld Galleries of Saint Louis--Rare Books--Since 1931. Photos upon request.
Seller: Hirschfeld Galleries, Saint Louis, MO, U.S.A.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Description: Quarto, 157 pages. In Very Good condition with a Good dust jacket. Spine blue with white lettering. Dust jacket protected with a mylar covering, price uncut '$3.75'. Dust jacket with some light chipping and wear concentrated at folds and head and tail of spine. The chips and wear have been stained with some blue ink, where someone tried to hide the chipping, with tape behind the ink. Light water-stain to head and tail of spine. Paint residue to lower edges of boards. Since piece of tape residue to each of the front free endpaper and rear free endpaper. Loose within is a check signed by Leopold Stokowski, drawn on Bank of America in Hollywood, California, November 13, 1943, approximately 8 1/4 x 3 inches, made out to the Santa Fe Railroad in the amount of $60.83. With perforated bank 'Paid in Full' and ink stamps to rear, single vertical fold. SC consignment. Shelved in Case 11. Leopold Stokowski was a one of the leading conductors of the early and mid-20th century. He conducted the music for Fantasia and was famously parodied in The Looney Tunes episode "Long-Haired Hare." 1375419. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
[DISNEY, WALT] TAYLOR, DEEMS.. Walt Disney's Fantasia. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1940, 1940.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. A fine copy in a dust jacket with slight wear and a few tiny nicks. Uncommon in excellent condition. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
Seller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc, Newton, MA, U.S.A.
Taylor, Deems; [Walt Disney]. Walt Disney's Fantasia. Simon and Schuster, New York, 1940.
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's beige cloth stamped in royal blue. Fine, in a Near Fine dust jacket with original price of $3.75 intact, with light edge wear and light rubbing; blind side is toned and with faint stain at the foot of the spine not visible from the recto. A fantastic copy of a book commonly found in much lesser condition. A wonderful evocation of Disney's epic.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$8500.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Aside from a small spot on the bottom edge, very nearly a fine copy in a good dust jacket. Presentation copy, inscribed by Disney on the half-title, 'To Esther With All Best Wishes, Walt Disney.' The recipient is purported to be Mexican actress Esther Fernandez, who worked briefly in Hollywood, although there doesn't appear to be any particular known association with Disney. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
Seller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc, Newton, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$27500.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Front hinge cracked; very good in a good to very good dust jacket with wear and tear; in a custom clamshell box. An important volume; animator Robert 'Tiger' West's copy. A holograph note, signed by West as 'Tiger' is laid in, describing how he drew for the film, purchasing this copy at Disney Studios and noting 'it is enhanced by personal drawings made by many great animator directors of that era.' There are several inscriptions and over twenty drawings (most in color) by those who worked on the film, the best known of whom is probably Ward Kimball. West, who passed away in 2006, enjoyed a long career in animation, particularly with his involvement in Xerox cartoon processing. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
Seller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc, Newton, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$35000.00 + shipping
Description: With a Foreword by Leopold Stokowski. Illustrated throughout. Folio, publisher's cloth in dust jacket; preserved in a custom clamshell box. First edition. Conductor Leopold Stokowski's own copy, signed by Disney (as" Walt") and ny the animation and background artists for the motion picture, many signing more than once, some under their reproduced artistic contributions. With a letter of provenance from the son of Stokowski's assistant, noting the signatures of Disney and "every animation artist, background artist and apprentice that worked on it."
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.