WALT DISNEY SIGNED "BAMBI" HARDCOVER BOOK.
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Winning Bid:
$3,245.00
(Includes 18% Buyer's Premium)
Bidding Ended:
Thursday, March 15, 2018 9:00:00 AM (20 Minute Clock Begins At Thursday, March 15, 2018 9:00:00 AM)
Item Description
9x11.25" first edition Simon & Schuster, Inc. book, ©1941 Walt Disney Productions. 60 pages w/content featuring bw and full color characters images, illustrations and adapted film scenes. Front endpapers have been signed by Walt Disney in black grease pencil, w/lengthy inscription to Barbara Ann Thompson, who worked in the Civil Service for the US Government. Walt has inscribed "To Barbara Ann Thompson - This Little Number Is Hot Of [sic] The Press - Although Confidentially I Think It's Not So Hot - But It's A Book - Walt Disney - 1941." Disney's signature measures 6" wide and remains bold. Comes w/7-1/8x9.5" studio portrait of Thompson, as well as her 1942 US tax return and printed "The Espionage Act" stat. Photo and documents show some scattered handling wear/aging and just come along. Book comes w/original dust jacket which features matching cover art to book, w/Bambi and his mother on front and Bambi as an adult on back. DJ is unclipped but shows obvious wear w/splits at corner and wear to to/bottom of spine, w/.75x2" triangular piece off upper left corner of DJ front. DJ is VG overall. Margins of signed page have some lt. aging but page is clean and displays Exc. Rest of book has some general handling wear w/splits to front endpaper along binding, but this does not affect inscription or signature. Moderate creases to spine w/scattered corner tip and cover edge wear. Cover is Fine overall while other inner contents remain clean and Exc. Interesting inscription content, worth noting as Disney seems displeased w/his company's product. Enhanced by bold Disney signature. Comes with Hake's COA and COA from Phil Sears, recognized as the premier Walt Disney autograph specialist.
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