Eric Chaim Kline, Bookseller - Old and Rare Books

Walt Disney's Fantasia [PROGRAM]

Stokowski, Leopold; Deems Taylor (Intro.)

New York: Walt Disney Productions, 1940. First edition. Softcover. Small Folio. 28pp. Original color-illustrated stiff wraps with blue red and white lettering on cover. Color-illustrated with vignettes on half-title, abstract frontispiece and color vignettes throughout the program, mostly in margins. Profusely illustrated with b/w photographs, including the concert, and color stills of the movie.

Screening with the score performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra, conductor Leopold Stokowski, with compositions by Bach, Tchaikowsky, Dukas, Stravinsky, Beethoven, Ponchielli, Moussorgsky, and Schubert. Illustrated throughout for each of the musical contributions with two pages on the making of Fantasia, including b/w photographs and illustrations in ochre. "It should be noted that the lyrics sung in Fantasia's version of the Ave Maria are not those from Sir Walter Scott's :Lady of the Lake" which Schubert used, but were written for the picture by the distinguished American novelist and poet, Rachel Field.

Very light wear along edges of wraps with half an inch sunned strip along spine on lightly age-toned front cover, with sunned strip faintly extending to half title. Else in very good+ condition. Good to very good condition. Item #56200

Price: $200.00