Walt Disney's Sketch Book of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Wm. Collins Sons & Co., 1938.
First edition. 4to. Buff canvas boards with black lettering on the front panel, in a pictorial dustwrapper and pictorial end papers. Twelve colour plates on brown paper and behind captioned tissue guards. Numerous sketches on each page, showing Walt Disney's drawing process. A near fine copy with some foxing to the prelims, in a near fine dustwrapper, which is unusually bright and crisp with just light wear to the spine ends.
In 1934, Walt Disney began his preliminary sketches on Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs which was inspired by the Grimm's story. The sketches formed the basis of his first full length cartoon film, which premiered in December 1937 and this book was published shortly thereafter, in April 1938.
Stock ID: 46390
