This is a beautiful book, honestly, it's gorgeous. You really feel the weight of it's wisdom in your hands when you hold it, it's one of those heavy, big books that make you want to prop yourself up in a comfortable chair and hold it in your lap and read through it much like you would when you were a child. The 1981 edition is beautiful but I imagine the 1995 edition would also be a wonderful book for your collection. I went with the 1981 edition because I read a review saying the colors are more brilliant and more original looking and the quality of the paper was better. However it's still a wonderful book, I'm a beginning animator and II love Disney, their movies, their animations and all the timelessness of their golden era of animation. Looking through the book it's steeped in full color images and sketches and examples for drawing and there's so much history in the book about the Disney company, and animation. It's not a light read, it's a novel but that's part of what makes it so amazing. A lot of pictures and a lot of information for you to take in, and you will be the better for reading it. You can't read this and not come away with something special.