[Signed] [First Edition] The Illusion of Life

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.

Estimate:£541.83

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