The Big Bad Wolf and Little Red Riding Hood.

DISNEY, Walt.

Item Number: 119864

New York: Blue Ribbon Books, 1934.

First edition of this wonderfully illustrated work by Disney. Quarto, original illustrated boards, illustrated endpapers, illustrated throughout. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “To Tommy Bell with my best wishes Walt Disney.” Very good in very good dust jacket.

The Big Bad Wolf is an animated short released on April 13, 1934 by United Artists, produced by Walt Disney and directed by Burt Gillett as part of the Silly Symphony series. Acting partly as a sequel to the wildly successful adaptation of The Three Little Pigs of the previous year (maintaining the previous film's title characters as well as its villain), this film also acts as an adaptation of the fairy-tale Little Red Riding Hood, with the Big Bad Wolf from 1933's Three Little Pigs acting as the adversary to Little Red Riding Hood and her grandmother.