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Auction History Result 6h0052 FANTASIA 10x13 hardcover book 1940 with color illustrations, in its ultra rare dust jacket! Date Sold 4/14/2024 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. A Vintage Hardcover Book (measures 10" x 13" [25 x 33 cm]; 158 pages) (Learn More) Walt Disney's Fantasia, the classic 1940 James Algar & Samuel Armstrong Walt Disney animated animation cartoon musical fantasy ("Walt Disney's Technicolor Feature Triumph") featuring Mickey Mouse and other cartoon characters created specifically for this feature movie, set to the music of classical composers including Leopold Stokowski, and Beethoven. Note that Fantasia had a very limited roadshow release which took place in several theaters with special audio equipment installed for the "Fantasound" system. This release started in late 1940 and continued into 1941, and these theaters often used home-made displays for the film. Throughout 1941, RKO negotiated with Disney to make a much shorter version of the movie in mono which could be shown in theaters without the need for special equipment. Disney finally agreed, and let RKO create a heavily edited version (he refused to edit it himself) which was released in early January of 1942. Regular posters were printed with a 1941 NSS number (it's not uncommon for films that are released near the start of a year to have a NSS from the previous year), and that is when the film had its first general release. So almost ALL of the known "first release" posters are from the 1942 continuous first release (with 1941 NSS numbers). The only pre-1942 advertising that we have seen are window cards, 8x10 stills and heralds from the theaters with the special "Fantasound" equipment. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that we have only previously auctioned two examples of this hardcover book, but neither of those examples had the dust jacket, as this one does, which massively adds to its value! Note that this is a large (10" x 13") first edition hardcover book published by Simon and Schuster, and it contains 158 heavily illustrated pages, with many color illustrations, and some are "tipped-in". The book is much larger than typical movie edition books, measuring 10" x 13", so it is truly much more like a "coffee table" book! See our images to get a sense of how nice this book is, and for publishing information. If anyone knows more about this, please e-mail us and we will post it here. Note that this is one of an amazing collection of 30 movie edition books (and a few closely related items) that were consigned to us from a man who has collected such books for over half a century! Included are some of the most rare and desirable of these books, and all have the original dust jackets (many times such books lost their dust jackets over the years and they are far more rare with the dust jacket). This is a very rare opportunity to obtain one or more of these books, most of which we have either never auctioned before or only auctioned once before! Note: We have 30 images of this book, but due to a space limitation, only TEN of the 30 images are displayed above. However, there is a "supersize" link to the right of those images that lets you see the other 20. Condition: very good. There are tiny creases, tiny tears, and tiny bits of paper loss in the top and bottom of the jacket, and a previous owner pasted a bookplate on the top blank area of the title page. Otherwise, the book itself is in pretty nice condition (see our many images). Learn More about condition grades 
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