The Illusion of Life. Disney Animation
New York, Hyperion, 1995 (first edition thus)/ 1981.
Square quarto, 575 pages with approximately 500 colour illustrations (and thousands of black and white ones) plus the signed folding sheet of printed colour illustrations tipped in before the half-title.
Gilt-pictorial purple cloth lettered in gilt on the spine; a very fine copy with the slipcase (in matching cloth, lettered in gilt - with a mounted colour plate - on one side).
'Three thousand five hundred copies of the first Hyperion edition of "The Illusion of Life: Disney Animation" have been specially bound with sixteen [reproduced] drawings by the authors, Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston.... In addition, each copy has been numbered and individually signed by Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston.' This is number 54.
Item #131031
Price (AUD):
$1,000.00