(Disney, Walt) TWO ORIGINAL HAND-PAINTED PRODUCTION CELS FROM THE WALT DISNEY STUDIO ILLUSTRATED D. C. HEATH BOOK "MICKEY NEVER FAILS" told by Robin Palmer; illustrated by The Walt Disney Studio. Boston: D. C. Heath and Company, (1939).The first cel, measuring 9-1/4" x 7-3/16", features Mickey Mouse looking on as two carpenters are busy building Mickey's new house; this drawing was reproduced as a full page, full color illustration opposite p. 1 of the book. The second cel, measuring 2-3/4" x 5-15/16", features a canine roofer nailing down the shingles on Mickey's new roof; this drawing was reproduced as a full color chapter header on p. 1 of the book. Both drawings are creatively matted along with a reproduction of the text from p. 1 of the book, so one sees the same thing looking at the framed drawings as one sees looking at the book opened to p. 1; overall framed size of matted drawings and text is 17-11/16" x 22-1/8"; ARTWORK IN PRISTINE CONDITION; frame with several scuff marks and dings. D. C. Heath and Company published several readers in collaboration with the Walt Disney Studio. The first four of these were published in 1939 and included Mickey Never Fails. The images in these books had a special quality to them, they looked as if they were right out of a Disney cartoon. The reason they looked that way was because they were prepared by employees of the Walt Disney Studio in exactly the same fashion that the Disney cartoons were prepared, i.e., they were hand inked and painted on cels; this gave the published drawings this special visual quality. Also included with the framed drawings is a NEAR FINE copy of a later edition of Mickey Never Fails where the drawings were originally published. #000924