Disney - The Tortoise and the Hare (with rare dust jacket) - Hardcover - First edition - (1935)

"The Tortoise and the Hare" - Whitman Publishing - 1935 first american edition - condition: book in very good condition with minor rubbing to edges, minor staining, one b/w ill. coloured in, all coloured plates present, in very rare first issue dust jacket with minor wear and staining in mylar cover.

The Tortoise and the Hare is a 1935 American animated short film released on January 5, 1935, by United Artists, produced by Walt Disney and directed by Wilfred Jackson.[1] Based on an Aesop's fable of the same name, it won the 1934 Oscar for Best Short Subject: Cartoons. This cartoon is also believed to be one of the inspirations for Bugs Bunny by Warner Bros., who first appeared in 1940