TLS signed “Roy O. Disney,” two pages, 8.5 x 11, nicely illustrated Mickey Mouse letterhead, December 10, 1931. Letter to Charles Lang, in part: “Your Sales Account Statement briefly states you have sold 24,994 copies of the Mickey Mouse Book since May 1st. Even at 5¢ per copy, this amounts to $1250.00. You have given us no statement of accounts or collections on these sales. We would like to have this at your very earliest convenience. I received your previous letter in answer to one of mine of earlier date in which I took exception to your method of handling the accounts. We shall never have any trouble so long as we treat the other in a straight forward way. We try to conduct business on this basis and we expect everybody whom we do business with to do likewise. If my criticism of you has been unfair, I will gladly apologize. I think one of the first things you should do, though, to show that your attitude is right is to give us a proper accounting of all monies received by you. It is no disgrace to be hard-pushed for money; we all get there at some time or other. We would not try to embarrass you for payments that would inconvenience or hurt you, but we insist on knowing the true condition of affairs. When may we expect a statement with regard to the monies receivable from these 25,000 books sold since May 1st? We would also like to know the number of books you now have on hand.” In fine condition. Bibo and Lang was a publisher who received one of the first licenses from Disney to use character images in its products, and published the first Disney book, simply titled The Mickey Mouse Book, in 1930. An insightful, aesthetically pleasing piece of correspondence dating to the infancy of the Mickey Mouse phenomenon. Pre-certified PSA/DNA.
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