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Walt Disney ''Fantasia'' Signed

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Walt Disney ''Fantasia'' Signed
"WINNERS WILL BE NOTIFIED AFTER THE AUCTION ENDS BY THE AUCTIONEER ONCE ALL BIDS HAVE BEEN PROCESSED TO DETERMINE THE WINNER FOR EACH LOT."
Walt Disney signed copy of his animated masterpiece, ''Walt Disney's Fantasia'' by Deems Taylor. With an introduction by Disney and a foreword by Leopold Stokowski, conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra who scored the motion picture. Simon and Schuster: New York: 1940. First edition with original first edition dustjacket. Signed in blue artist's crayon to half-title page, ''To 'Big Bob' / With Best Wishes / Walt Disney'' and finished with a flourish. This book version of Disney's ''Fantasia'' is illustrated throughout with a magnificent gallery of color plates and monochrome vignettes. In publisher's cream cloth boards with blue lettering and illustrated endpapers. Two small areas of discoloration along top edge of rear board, and front board slightly loose. Price-clipped dustjacket has chipping and rubbing along edges, mostly at spine ends and along flap folds, and adhesive stains to verso. Book, in a blue cloth slipcase, is in near fine condition and the dustjacket is in very good condition. Overall a beautiful, presentable copy of a title rarely encountered signed.