Stokowski Leopold Intro (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st U.K. edition. The Walt Disney interpretation with story and music. Colour illustrations and some black & white. Decorative endpapers. There is an inscription at top of half-title page but otherwise all very clean inside. The paper covered boards with cloth spine are firm, front board very clean, the back board has small scattered marks. Some edge wear to fore corners. Disney, Walt (illustrator).…

Illustrated Card. Condition: Very Good Plus. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Australian Edition. 32pp. Extremely attractive decorated card covers with the characters from Fantasia around the title. The book has very minor corner bumps and a previous owners insciption else I would grade it fine, in matching jacket. Jacket has slight edge wear and a small book store stamp, also a couple of minor tears. Light surface silverfishing to prelims. Containing 6 special musical arrangements and delightfully illustrated in colour throughout this is overall a most attractive copy. Size: 4to.…

Softcover. Condition: Good to very good condition. First edition. 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. …