Walt Disney’s Life of Donald Duck.

DISNEY, Walt.

Item Number: 105094

New York: Random House, 1941.

First edition of Walt Disney’s The Life of Donald Duck. Quarto, original illustrated boards, pictorial endpapers, illustrated. Near fine in the rare original dust jacket which is in very good condition.

Founded as the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio in 1923 and incorporated as Walt Disney Productions in 1929, Walt Disney Animation Studios has produced 57 feature films. For much of its existence, the studio was recognized as the premier American animation studio; it developed many of the techniques, concepts and principles that became standard practices of traditional animation. Donald Duck's first appearance was in 1934 in The Wise Little Hen, and throughout the next several decades he appeared in over 150 theatrical films, several of which were recognized at the Academy Awards.