Signed book: The Story of Walt Disney by Diane Disney Miller. First edition, first printing. NY: Henry Holt and Company, 1957. Hardcover with dustjacket, 6 x 8.5, 247 pages. Signed in green ink on the half-title page, “Best wishes, Walt Disney,” and also signed on the endpapers and front and rear blanks in ink and felt tip by 38 members of Disney’s staff, some also inscribing: Frank Thomas (one of the “Nine Old Men”), Ollie Johnston (NOM), Marc Davis (NOM), Ward Kimball (NOM), Ken Anderson (art director for Snow White), Claude Coats (background painter for Snow White and Pinocchio), Bill Bosche (early Imagineer), Ed Fourcher (animator for Snow White and Fantasia), Pete Alvarado (animator for Sleeping Beauty), Ray Aragon (animator for Lady and the Tramp), Phil Roman (animator for Sleeping Beauty), Grim Natwick (animator for Snow White and creator, for the Fleischer Studios, of Betty Boop), Eyvind Earle (art director for Sleeping Beauty), Bob Jones (animation model creator), Carl Barks (creator of Uncle Scrooge and writer of the Donald Duck comics), Becky Fallberg (“ink and paint lady”), Lee Blair (art director for Fantasia), Ray Bradbury (designer of several Disney projects for the 1964 World’s Fair), Bill Justice (creator of Chip ’n’ Dale), Harry Tytle (Walt Disney’s No. 2 man), Virginia Davis (actress in the silent film Alice in Cartoonland), R. H. Gurr (Imagineer), Sam McKim (artist and designer of the Haunted Mansion), Buzz Price, George McGinnis (Imagineer), Bob Broughton (Imagineer), Colin Campbell (Imagineer), Ron Dias (animator for Sleeping Beauty), and others. The book, by Disney’s daughter, was the only full-length biography of the animator published during his lifetime. Light show-through of a few felt tip signatures, small “2” notation above Disney’s signature, light wear to dustjacket, and some slight separation of signed pages from binding, otherwise fine condition. A true treasure from the studio that changed the face of animation! PSA/DNA Auction LOA and R&R COA
