Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Walt Disney. First Editions, 1937. Peter Harrington Rare Books HD

DISNEY, Walt. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. First Edition. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1937. You can view this first edition Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs online here: http://www.peterharrington.co.uk/rare-books/childrens-literature-childrens-illustrated-books/snow-white-and-the-seven-dwarfs-3/ Presented by Pom Harrington, owner of Peter Harrington Rare Books. Quarto. Pictorial paper boards, black cloth backstrip, pictorial endpapers. With the dust jacket. Housed in a full blue morocco solander box. Walt Disney Studio colour and black and white illustrations throughout. Light wear to extremities, rubbing to corners, occasional spotting to pages and a few pages with light creasing, page 64 with a very tidy professionally repaired closed tear, gift inscription to copyright page, in a very bright dust jacket with just a touch of rubbing at corners and ends of spine. A very attractive copy. First edition, first printing. A copy lavishly inscribed by Walt Disney and 51 of the film’s animators. This is very probably one of the copies resulting from RKO’s first International Sales Convention at the Hotel George V in Paris, involving 24 potential European distributors – dubbed “The European Foreign Legion”. The agenda included a screening of Snow White. For this important two-day business meeting, Disney orchestrated the signing of a number of copies of the book version of Snow White to be given as gifts. He signed boldly at the bottom of the title page, instructing the movie’s animators and other creative personnel to sign the title and facing page, as well as the front free endpaper. This is one of those few signed copies, bearing, in addition to Disney’s, signatures of 51 of the film’s 64 principal creators. The majority of images for Snow White have been attributed to noted artist Gustaf Tenggren, whose signature appears at the top of the front free endpaper verso. In addition to Tenggren, signatories include six of the other nine lead animators, later affectionately called by Disney his “nine old men” – Les Clark, Milt Kahl, Ward Kimball, Eric Larson, Wolfgang “Woolie” Reitherman, and Frank Thomas. The remaining autographs include those of character designers, art directors and supervising animators. Other notable singers include character designers Albert Hurter and Joe Grant; art directors Charles Phillippi, Terrell Stapp, McLaren Stewart, Harold Miles, Ken Anderson, Kendall O’Connor and Hazel Sewell; and supervising animators Ham Luske and Vladimir Tytla. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Walt Disney. First Editions, 1937. https://youtu.be/ZYLrR9uDbHU