The Art of Animation:The Story of the Disney Studio Contribution to a New Art.

THOMAS, Bob (Walt Disney).

Item Number: 71025

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1958.

First edition of this definitive work on the animation of Walt Disney. Quarto, original half cloth, pictorial endpapers. Boldly signed by Walt Disney opposite the half-title page. Name to the front free endpaper, fine in a near fine dust jacket.

Bob Thomas roamed the Disney Studio, listening and conducting interviewing with the men who made the historic advances and innovations in animation. Watching the intricate processes by which a cartoon moves from the storyboard to the screen, the result is a remarkable tour behind the scenes of the magic we see on the screen.