The Art of Pixar Short Films, Amid Amidi, Chronicle Books LLC, 2009, Film, HC, VG

Amidi, Amid. San Francisco: Chronicle Books LLC, 2009 English, Very Good hardcover, oblong quarto, 9 ¼” x 11 3/16”, 158 pp. ISBN:9780811866064 Very Good oblong quarto, dark blue coated paper over boards, blind-stamped illustration to front, white lettering to spine, blue endpapers with illustrations, rubbing and dents to top edge, minimal edgewear to bottom edge, sunning to top edge and fore edge of text block, clean interior. Good pictorial dust jacket with illustration of lamp and ball, white and blue lettering to front, light blue spine with black lettering, edgewear, soiling, bumping and rubbing to tips, creases to bottom back panel, crease to front flap, 1 ¼” closed tear to spine. Text in English, Foreword by John Lasseter, Early Shorts, The Next Generation Shorts, Feature Film-Based Shorts, replete with full-color and black-and-white illustrations, pencil sketches, storyboards, photographs, and final rendered frames. A splendid copy that examines the legacy of short filmmaking and the creative process at the Emeryville, California studio, with interviews with the directors, producers, artists, and animators who created One Man Band, Mater and the Ghostlight, and eleven other iconic shorts.