Torgny Schunnesson Rare Books

Disney, Walt

Disney, Walt; Walt Disney The Art of Animation. By Bob Thomas with the Walt Disney staff with research by Don Graham. Boldly inscribed by Walt Disney. Simon & Schuster, New York, 1958. First edition.
Hardbound cloth-backed 4:o (288 x 213 mm.) with gray spine lettered in red and black and illustrated paper boards. Top edge yellow and orange endpapers decorated with sequences of flying owls. No dust jacket. Extravagantly illustrated with drawings in colour and with numerous photographs in black and white. Binding with two very light marks to corners below, else an outstanding fresh binding. Text and illustrations as new. A fine copy ! Boldly inscribed over almost half the page on the white front endpaper in grey/brown crayon: "To Torsten Jungstedt with best wishes - Walt Disney." To see this item please go to www.schunnesson.com. Click Walt Disney.
Torsten Jungstedt (1918-2006), legendary Swedish film critic, author and a popular host for a weekly film magazine in Swedish Television for many years.