Description
Near Fine dust jacket, with various illustrations. The Near Fine binding is yellow cloth over boards, white cloth backed, gilt stamping on the spine. Black-and-white and color illustrations throughout. The “1” is present on the number line on copyright page which is the designation of first edition.. This is the revised and updated first edition. “First Edition Thus”. The binding is tight and pages are clean. The book measures 12.2″ tall x 10.9″ wide..
About the book (from the dust jacket)
Here is the most complete and lavishly illustrated history of animation ever published, now revised and brought up to date to cover the latest developments and the most recent releases.
The book is bursting at the seams with everyone’s favorite cartoon characters: Gertie the Dinosaur, Betty Boop, Donald and Mickey, Popeye, Mighty Mouse, Woody Woodpecker, Porky Pig, Bugs Bunny, the Flintstones, the Simpsons, Belle and Beast, Genie and Aladdin, and many, many more.
It begins with the traveling magic lantern shows that thrilled audiences in the 1700s, continues through the birth of Felix the Cat and Mickey Mouse in the 1920s and goes right up to the modern marvels of Jurassic Park and The Lion King.
With its wonderfully authoritative and comprehensive text and its more than 400 drawings, photographs, cels and filmstrips, this book is a joy- and a must- for everyone who has ever responded to the magic of cartoon
WITH MORE THAN 400 ILLUSTRATIONS, 250 IN FULL COLOR
Jacket design by Gus Papadopoulos Caricature of the author by T. Daniel Hofstedt. Type design by The Anagram Design Group
About the Author (from the dust jacket)
Charles Solomon is an internationally respected critic and historian of animation. He has written on the subject for the Los Angeles Times, Rolling Stone, Film Comment, Emmy, Modern Maturity. and the Hollywood Reporter. The original edition of Enchanted Drawings: The History of Animation became the first film book to be nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award, was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and ,was included in the list of “One Hundred Books on Hollywood and the Movies” prepared by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the Book Collectors of Los Angeles.
