They personally animated leading characters in most of the famous films, and have decades of close association with the other men and women who helped perfect this extremely difficult and time-consuming art form (each feature requires some two and half million drawings!). The authors, Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston, worked not only with the legendary Walt Disney himself but also with other leading figures in the half-century of Disney films. In addition, each copy has been numbered and individually signed by Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston' this is number 2817.The most complete book on the subject ever written, this is the fascinating inside story by two long-term Disney animators of the gradual perfecting of a relatively young and particularly American art from, which no other movie studio has ever been able to equal. 'Three thousand five hundred copies of the first Hyperion edition of "The Illusion of Life: Disney Animation" have been specially bound with sixteen drawings by the authors, Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston.
Gilt-pictorial purple cloth lettered in gilt on the spine minimal foxing to the front endpaper, the first and last page of text, and the outer surfaces of the folded signed sheet (there is no foxing to the signed illustrated pages) very small name label affixed to the front flyleaf an excellent copy with the lightly marked slipcase (in matching cloth, lettered in gilt - with a mounted colour plate - on one side). Square quarto, 575 pages with approximately 500 colour illustrations (and thousands of black and white ones) plus the signed folding sheet of printed colour illustrations tipped in before the half-title.
New York, Hyperion, 1995 (first edition thus)/ 1981.
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