DISNEY, Walt (1901 - 1966) - TAYLOR, Deems (1885 - 1966). Walt Disney's Fantasia. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1940. Folio (330 x 242 mm). Title in red, blue and black. Foreword by Leopold Stokowski. 15 colored plates and numerous other illustrations in color and black and white. Publisher's tan cloth, lettered in blue, color pictorial endpapers. Original dust-jacket. Condition: occasional light spotting to board edges, spine and turn-ins; jacket with minor scuffing and slight chipping to extremities, tanned at folds on verso. rare first edition in the dust jacket. Number 58 on the American Film Institute's 1998 list of the 100 Greatest American Films of all time, Fantasia is arguably Walt Disney's greatest achievement. The present work is an important contemporary account of the famous film with contributions by American composer and music critic Deems Taylor (who serves as the host of the film), Leopold Stowkowski who directed the recording of the soundtrack which is at the heart of the movie, and of course Walt Disney himself.