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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.
Walt Disney. FANTASIA. RKO Radio Films, 1940.
Price: US$5525.98 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Plaquette in-8 de présentation du film Fantasia mêlant Mickey et la musique classique. Portrait de Walt Disney avec signature autographe.
Seller: pollet-villard the sniper, lyon, France
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.