The Illusion of Life Disney Animation, Signed (19 results)

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition Thus./5th Printing. SIGNED by famed Disney animator Ollie Johnston on a card affixed to half-title page (signature and drawing of two eyes only). $60.00 price present on DJ flap. Extremely heavy, 575 pages, oversized book may require extra postage. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Includes dust jacket. Signed. First Edition. Copy in Near Fine/Fine condition, in dust jacket. Stated first edition. This is the deluxe edition, SIGNED by Thomas and Johnston on a plate affixed to the front pastedown. Also includes flim strip of Mickey as Pinocchio.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Deluxe issue in slipcase, with a plate signed by both authors tipped in at front paste down, which loosely holds in place the foot of classic film, included with this edition. Red cloth with gilt titling and decoration, very good with light edgewear. Spine square. Binding sound. Dust jacket good+ or very good-, with moderate edgewear including delicate edges over the book's hinges, the DJ beginning to split at either side of the spine. Slipcase very good with mostly light shelf-wear, heavier scraping in some places. Pages bright and unmarked. Deluxe issue ISBN: 0896592333. Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 9780896592339 / 0896592332 This is the First Edition - Second Printing - Special Edition of Disney Animation: The Illusion of Life. It has the cardboard casement, the authors autographs, and the filmstrip. The methods of Disney character development, including "two-dimensional" first attempts and the discovery of laws of animation, are discussed by experienced Disney animators and illustrated with more than thirteen hundred illustrations. The casement has a few small rubs and tiny edge-nicks. The book is definitely near-fine and I could not find any mar or blemeish. Please see pictures for condition PLEASE NOTE: SHIPPING WITHIN THE US IS $9.86. Inscribed by Author(s).

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine in NF Slipcase. Limited Edition. A spectacular special edition signed by the authors on the limitation plate on the front endpapers, and including a foot of original film from a class Disney feature. The film is of a wise old owl on a tree branch, from Winnie-the-Pooh? Undetermined. The book is in fine red cloth and is in beautiful condition. 575 pp. The dustjacket is near fine with light sunning and small inconspicuous tears but is complete and beautiful with colorful sketches from "Pinocchio." The slipcase is solid with an attractive cutout on the front that permits the book to show through. There are light touches of wear on the colorful pictures from "Pinocchio" carried throughout. A very attractive edition that provides in-depth detail on the Disney world of animation. The book is very heavy but the price includes the extra postage necessary.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 575 pages. First limited edition, first printing. Illustrated with numerous reproduction of sketches, drawings and full color animation cells. One of an unspecified number of copies comprising the "Special Edition", signed by Thomas & Johnston and with a foot of original Disney film "Bambi" laid in. The definitive study of Disney film-making. A Hollywood 100 book. Fine book in a fine dust jacket enclosed in an equally fine pictorial slipcase. A beautiful book. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: fine. 1st. Second printing of the deluxe first edition, signed by the authors on mounted bookplate, with Disney cartoon film strip laid in. Bound in publisher's original red cloth with spine and cover stamped in gilt and yellow endpapers. Original illustrated slipcase in fine condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. Limited Signed Deluxe Edition. Deluxe edition, signed by both authors, with strip of film affixed inside front cover and with die-cut slipcase. Fine book in near fine dust jacket with trace of corner wear. Slipcase VG+ to near fine. Also includes original cardboard mailing case in overall good with some wear and age-toning. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Inscribed "Frank Thomas Ollie Johnston / 11-18-97" on half title page in Black and blue ink. Autographs of both Ollie Johnston and Frank Thomas were obtained in person at their homes in Southern California on November 18,1997. Oliver Martin Johnston Jr. (October 31, 1912 ? April 14, 2008) was an American motion picture animator. He was one of Disney's Nine Old Men, and the last surviving at the time of his death from natural causes. He was recognized by The Walt Disney Company with its Disney Legend Award in 1989. His work was recognized with the National Medal of Arts in 2005. Franklin Rosborough Thomas (September 5, 1912 ? September 8, 2004) was an American animator and pianist. He was one of Walt Disney's leading team of animators known as the Nine Old Men. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Inscribed "Frank Thomas Ollie Johnston / 11-18-97" on half title page in black and blue ink. Autographs of both Ollie Johnston and Frank Thomas were obtained in person at their homes in Southern California on November 18,1997. Oliver Martin Johnston Jr. (October 31, 1912 ? April 14, 2008) was an American motion picture animator. He was one of Disney's Nine Old Men, and the last surviving at the time of his death from natural causes. He was recognized by The Walt Disney Company with its Disney Legend Award in 1989. His work was recognized with the National Medal of Arts in 2005. Franklin Rosborough Thomas (September 5, 1912 ? September 8, 2004) was an American animator and pianist. He was one of Walt Disney's leading team of animators known as the Nine Old Men. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Inscribed "Frank Thomas Ollie Johnston / 11-18-97" on half title page in Black and blue ink. Autographs of both Ollie Johnston and Frank Thomas were obtained in person at their homes in Southern California on November 18,1997. Oliver Martin Johnston Jr. (October 31, 1912 ? April 14, 2008) was an American motion picture animator. He was one of Disney's Nine Old Men, and the last surviving at the time of his death from natural causes. He was recognized by The Walt Disney Company with its Disney Legend Award in 1989. His work was recognized with the National Medal of Arts in 2005. Franklin Rosborough Thomas (September 5, 1912 ? September 8, 2004) was an American animator and pianist. He was one of Walt Disney's leading team of animators known as the Nine Old Men. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First edition. The outstanding deluxe edition signed by both Ollie Johnston and Frank Thomas and includes a 12" filmstrip of 16 frames. Fine copy in dust jacket and handsome slipcase with slight rubbing to both. A fabulous and richly detailed book. RED SILK BINDING. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. red cloth w/ gilt Pinocchio illus on front, gilt lettering on spine; yellow endpapers; contains a foot of original film, from the 'mushroom dance' in "Fantasia"; 575 pgs w/ 489 full color plates & thousands of b&w illus; notes & index; illus dust jacket, unpriced, w/ authors' photo by Jan-Eric Nystrooom on rear flap; illus slipcase w/ window cut-out; pub card laid in; **also: Abbeville's rare promotional "flip" booklet for this title, (5"x 6", stapled wraps) w/ b&w illus card covers, [44 pages); reversible: Mickey Swings a Hatchet, turn upside down for A Stalking Tiger; a scarce item! edited by Walton Rawls. designed by Nai Y.Chang w/ production by Howard Morris. fine copy in fine dust jacket; slipcase vg only w/ scuffing spots to paper cover of lower spine; minor rubbing to spine edges, else, an unweakened, sound box w/ front & rear panels unspoiled; booklet near fine. Signed by Author(s).

575 pp. Illustrated throughout in color and black and white. Large 4to, publisher's gilt red buckram in pictorial dust jacket and illustrated die-cut slipcase. First edition; Special Edition; signed by Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston, with a foot of original film. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. There is only very slight use to the slipcase. Additional postage applicable for this very heavy book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. New York, Hyperion, 1995 (first edition thus)/ 1981. 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. Gilt-pictorial purple cloth lettered in gilt on the spine; a very fine copy with the slipcase (in matching cloth, lettered in gilt - with a mounted colour plate - on one side). 'Three thousand five hundred copies of the first Hyperion edition of "The Illusion of Life: Disney Animation" have been specially bound with sixteen [reproduced] drawings by the authors, Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston. In addition, each copy has been numbered and individually signed by Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston.' This is number 54.

4to. pp. 575. 489 colour illus. & 1000+ b/w illus. index. cloth. dw. (very minor wear to extremities). Slipcase (worn, bumped & scuffed). Signed by Thomas Frank & Ollie Johnston on front-endpaper bookplate with a foot of original film (Snow White). First Edition.

OLLIE JOHNSTON Letters are rare. 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. The letters range in dates between 1980-1983. The outstanding letter in this small group is a Typed Letter Signed on "Walt Disney presents The Jungle Book" stationery, 4to, Burbank CA, Feb. 23, 1980. The printed color illustrations on the stationery show the main characters of the film. Johnston writes to Ms. Scott, "I am enclosing under separate cover some enlargements from the "Jungle Book" film. Most of the Baloo pictures are taken from scenes that I animated.I also did the little girl and Mowgli.I am glad that your class likes the character of Baloo. He was one of my all-time favorites to work with.when I did the scene of Baloo and Bagheera dancing off into the sunset at the end of the picture, I was quite sad. I knew that I would never draw them again." He signs in red pencil, "Ollie Johnston." Johnston writes a follow up TLS on his personalized printed "Mickey Mouse" stationery, 8vo, April 20, 1980. "Early in February I received a letter from you requesting some art work on Baloo the bear.Now, I'm wondering if you received this material." Signed in bold, "Ollie Johnston." The third TLS is written to another fan on similar personalized printed Mickey Mouse stationery, 8vo, Dec. 16, 1983, thanking Jimmy for buying "our book." He continues inquiring about a place he could, buy anthracite coal. "Your dad sent me an ad or an address or a phone number.the long distance operator had no listing for the place.so I'm still without coal for my engine." He makes one holograph correction in pencil and signs, "Ollie Johnston." He likely refers to the book on Disney animation he co-wrote with fellow Disney animator Frank Thomas, "Disney Animation: The Illusion of Life," (Abbeville Press: 1981) The two Autograph Letters Signed are undated, brief, one in red color pencil, the other in plain graphite. Writing in red pencil, Johnston begins the longer ALS with an apology for being "so abrupt, but I've been terribly busy on our book on Disney animation coming out this August or September." He signs in full, "Ollie Johnston." In the fifth ALS, written on a 3 x 5 inch index card in pencil he thanks his correspondent "for buying our book." He likely refers to the book on Disney animation. Signed in fill, "Ollie Johnston." The group of letters came with an unattributed sketch of Mickey Mouse's face drawn on brown "Priority Mail" stamped wrapping paper. Johnston worked for Disney studios from 1934 to 1978 and was one of the most significant of the Disney animators. Referred to as one of the Nine Old Men, Johnston worked on the classic Disney animation films including "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs", "Bambi" and "Fantasia." Additional images on request.