Christopher Finch, The Art of the Lion King, Hyperion, 1994, HC, Near Fine Folio

Finch, Christopher. New York: Hyperion, 1994.

English, First Edition, Near Fine, HC, Folio, 10 ½” x 13 ¼,” Unpaginated 

ISBN: 0786860286

Cream woven cloth over boards, stamped sun motif to front, gold stamped text to spine, full-color illustrated endpapers, in publisher’s full-color illustrated dust jacket, gold metallic text to front and spine, black text to white inside gate flaps. Minor edgewear, minor creasing to back inside endpaper near spine, otherwise clean, tightly bound, and excellent. In a Very Good dust jacket now protected in a Mylar sleeve. Minor edgewear, mild shelfwear, minor scratching to front, back, and spine, minor sunning to top edge, otherwise very good. Unpaginated. Replete with full-color and black-and-white images. Includes fold out pages. Foreword by James Earl Jones. A brilliant spread of concept art and film stills, paired with captions and descriptive text. “The lush array of artwork contained in these pages shows the evolution of The Lion King, including character development, animation, and final art…[It is a] tribute to the significant talent of imagination of the collaborative adventure of making an animated film” (from the dust jacket).