the illusion of life frank thomas and ollie johnston

Scott, 'I am enclosing under separate cover some enlargements from the 'Jungle Book' film. The printed color illustrations on the stationery show the main characters of the film. The outstanding letter in this small group is a Typed Letter Signed on 'Walt Disney presents The Jungle Book' stationery, 4to, Burbank CA, Feb. The letters range in dates between 1980-1983. He wrote three of the letters to fans referring to his work on Disney's, 'The Jungle Book,' based on Rudyard Kipling's stories of the same name. In addition, each copy has been numbered and individually signed by Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston' this is number 2817. 'Three thousand five hundred copies of the first Hyperion edition of 'The Illusion of Life: Disney Animation' have been specially bound with sixteen drawings by the authors, Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston.

Gilt-pictorial purple cloth lettered in gilt on the spine minimal foxing to the front endpaper, the first and last page of text, and the outer surfaces of the folded signed sheet (there is no foxing to the signed illustrated pages) very small name label affixed to the front flyleaf an excellent copy with the lightly marked slipcase (in matching cloth, lettered in gilt - with a mounted colour plate - on one side). 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. New York, Hyperion, 1995 (first edition thus)/ 1981.

The illusion of life frank thomas and ollie johnston