When was pinocchio first published

Ink ownership inscription of Marguerite Barham, Scotland, dated on initial blank recto and pencilled gift inscription to her on verso from Alice Middleton Gorebridge.

Endpapers and outer leaves very lightly foxed, else a fine copy, the cloth particularly fresh, clean and white. Published by Collins [], London and Glasgow, Contact seller. First Edition Signed. Used - Hardcover. Within U. First English edition of the book version of Walt Disney's second feature-length animated motion picture.

Quarto, original half cloth over illustrated boards, pictorial endpapers, illustrated. Boldly signed by Walt Disney on the verso of the title page. In very good condition. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Rare signed by Walt Disney. Based on the Italian children's novel The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi, Walt Disney's Pinocchio was the second animated feature film produced by his studio following his first animated success Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Pinocchio was initially a box office bomb, due to World War II cutting off the European and Asian markets overseas, but eventually made a profit in its reissue.

It is now considered one of the greatest animated films ever made. Published by Cassell, New York, Used - Softcover Condition: Very good plus. Condition: Very good plus. After a career in journalism, Collodi turned to children's literature, first translating a collection of Perrault's fairy tales into Italian. A shorter version of the story first appeared serially in a children's magazine in Italy from July 7, to January and was first published in its full-length book form in Italy in This first edition in English is charmingly illustrated by Enrico Mazzanti, the illustrator of the Italian edition.

A title in the Children's Library, this Cassell imprint is hard to find. Original decorative cloth with blue design repeated on edges. Illustrated by E. Mazzanti incorrectly printed as "C. Scott Fitzgerald. Ian Fleming. Kenneth Grahame. Thomas Hardy. Ernest Hemingway. Rudyard Kipling. Herman Melville. John Milton. Isaac Newton. George Orwell. Edgar Allan Poe.

Beatrix Potter. Arthur Rackham. Virginia Woolf. Print Catalogues. Fair Lists. View as List View Grid View. The Story of a Puppet or the Adventures of Pinocchio. London : First edition in English. But, sad to relate, my dear children, he did hit the Cricket, straight on its head. Comparetti, she added, was among the folklorists in Italy who, like the Grimms, collected folktales from around the country. Fairytales are about all of this and more, and that is why we like them.