Originally Posted By TALL Disney Guy gurgitoy2, it's 70 dollars and up at abebooks.com: <a href="http://dogbert.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?sts=t&y=8&tn=disneyland+inside+story&x=36" target="_blank">http://dogbert.abebooks.com/se rvlet/SearchResults?sts=t&y=8&tn=disneyland+inside+story&x=36</a>
Originally Posted By mickey_ring I like to go trolling on ebay for older WDW books. Walt Disney World: The First Decade and Walt Disney's Epcot Center are two gems printed in 1982. I also found a picture book that details the 1976 "America on Parade" parade. Great stuff!
Originally Posted By FiveBearRugs I used to like Steven Birnbaum's books; His early 90s edition of WDW was a favorite of mine at the local edition, and I still have his 1992 edition of DL (which was a free gift in DL travel packages that year). I then noticed that all his following books on the parks were pretty much the same.
Originally Posted By schnebs gugitoy, while you're looking for Inside Story, don't forget to check eBay and Half.com. A couple of weeks ago, I was able to find a copy of Epcot Center (the larger pre-opening version) for a really good price (about $15-20, IIRC) and in great condition to boot. I'll be the first to acknowledge a bargain like that's rare, but ya never know...
Originally Posted By Brian55nh I have pretty much every book so far mentioned, but for me hands down the best coffee table book on any Disney theme park has to be "Disneyland Paris: From Sketch To Reality" by Didier Ghez. Not only is it crammed full of wonderful pictures and Imagineering models/artwork, but details of each attraction are discussed in the accompanying text. God but I wish a similiar book for every other theme park was published just like this...
Originally Posted By TALL Disney Guy Well I too LOVE Jason Surrell's "The Haunted Mansion", "The Disney Villain", "Illusion of Life", and more (and one gem is the exremely rare "One of Walt's Boys" by Harry Tytle), but I have also fallen in love with my newest find of another rare gem: Bob Thomas's original 1958 version of "The Art of Animation", which features the making of "Sleeping Beauty", and some great never-before seen or reprinted studio photos, sketches, pictures, and cels: <a href="http://www.kodakgallery.com/Slideshow.jsp?mode=fromshare&Uc=bcgjgyi.615uy3hu&Uy=-z1cl1p&Ux=0" target="_blank">http://www.kodakgallery.com/Sl ideshow.jsp?mode=fromshare&Uc=bcgjgyi.615uy3hu&Uy=-z1cl1p&Ux=0</a>
Originally Posted By idleHands 'Designing Disney's Theme Parks: The Architecture of Reassurance' (Karal Ann Marling, editor) It's academically geeky for the Disney Dork in all of us. (And the companion exhibit was excellent as well.)
