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The Illusion of Life. Disney Animation
by THOMAS, Frank and Ollie JOHNSTON
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
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About This Item
New York: Hyperion, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. 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.
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- Bookseller
- Michael Treloar Antiquarian Booksellers
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 131031
- Title
- The Illusion of Life. Disney Animation
- Author
- THOMAS, Frank and Ollie JOHNSTON
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Hyperion
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1995
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Michael Treloar Antiquarian Booksellers
Biblio member since 2006
Adelaide, South Australia
About Michael Treloar Antiquarian Booksellers
The business was established in Adelaide in March 1976 and is a longstanding member of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Antiquarian Booksellers (ANZAAB) and the Australian Antique Dealers Association (AADA). A large out-of-print and antiquarian stock is maintained at our retail outlet in the centre of Adelaide; mail-order catalogues of our specializations are issued and a representative selection of our stock is online.
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- Gilt
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- Plate
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- Quarto
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- Tipped In
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- Fine
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- Cloth
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- First Edition
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