Sothebys: Original Film Posters, L26102, London

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
May 20, 2026 - May 20, 2026
Page Size: 146 items in 6 pages
Auction Lot Books
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 Saverio Pavone

US Roadshow One Sheet for Lawrence of Arabia, 1962

1962 GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 GBP 9,600.00
2 Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

Set of 4 original photographic production stills from Lawrence of Arabia, 1962

1962 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 896.00
3 The Hustler (1961)

US re-release 1964 One Sheet for The Hustler (1961)

1961 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 2,816.00
4 The Graduate (1967)

US poster for The Graduate, 1967

1967 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 2,816.00
5 Frank McCarthy

US re-release 1970s International Concept One Sheet for The Great Escape

ca. 1970s GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 GBP 6,400.00
6 The Great Escape (1963)

Original photographic production still from US release of The Great Escape, 1963

1963 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 2,816.00
7 The Italian Job (1969)

Japanese First Release 1970 STB Tatekan for The Italian Job (1969)

1969 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 1,536.00
8 The Thomas Crown Affair (1968)

British First Release 1969 Quad for The Thomas Crown Affair (1968)

1969 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 Not Sold
9 The Thomas Crown Affair (1968)

Japanese First Release STB Tatekan for The Thomas Crown Affair (1968)

1968 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 Not Sold
10 Bill Gold

US One Sheet for Cool Hand Luke, 1967

1967 GBP 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 GBP 1,536.00
11 Bullitt (1968)

Japanese STB Tatekan for Bullitt, 1968

1968 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
12 Tom William Chantrell

British Quad for Bonnie and Clyde, 1967

1967 GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00 GBP 1,664.00
13

US First Release 1967 Advance One Sheet for Per un Pugno di Dollari / A Fistful of Dollars (1964)

1967 GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 GBP 5,120.00
14 Franco Fiorenzi

Italian Style B Locandina for Il Buono Il Brutto Il Cattivo / The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, 1966

1966 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 GBP 2,432.00
15 Ercole Brini

Italian First Release 1967 Quattro Fogli for Blow-Up (1966)

1967 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 2,816.00
16 Marcel Chica

French Grande for Une Femme est une Femme / A Woman is a Woman, signed by Anna Karina, 1961

ca. 1961 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
17 Georgio Olivetti

Italian Style A Quattro Fogli for La Dolce Vita, 1960

1960 GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 GBP 28,160.00
18

French Review-Style Grande for Un Homme et une Femme / A Man and a Woman, 1966

1966 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
19 Christian Broutin

French Grande for Jules et Jim, 1962

1962 GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 GBP 3,840.00
20 Guiliano Nistri

Italian Quattro Fogli for La Notte / The Night, 1961

1961 GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 Not Sold
21 Belle de Jour (1967)

Japanese STB Tatekan for Belle de Jour, 1967

1967 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 896.00
22 Kamimura Kazuo

Japanese B2 for Les Parapluies de Cherbourg / The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, 1964

1964 GBP 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 GBP 1,024.00
23 Jolanta Karczewska

Polish First Release 1968 poster for Zazie Dans le Metro / Zazie W Metro (1960)

ca. 1960s GBP 700.00 - 900.00 Not Sold
24

Cuban First Release 1968 poster for Girl with Green Eyes / La Muchacha de los Ojos Verdes (1964)

1964 GBP 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 Not Sold
25 Jack Davis

US Half Sheet for The Party, 1968

1968 GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00 GBP 3,840.00
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    Shelf Life: Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper from the Library of Stanley J. Seeger and Christopher Cone
    25 June – July 7
    Sotheby’s, July 7: Ludwig van Beethoven. Autograph sketches for the overture "Die Weihe des Hauses", op.124, [1822], UNPUBLISHED. £150,000 to £200,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 7: Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice, 1813, first edition, 3 volumes, contemporary half calf. £50,000 to £70,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 7: Walt Whitman. Leaves of Grass, Brooklyn, 1855, first edition, first issue, original green cloth, the Doheny copy. £50,000 to £70,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 7: Binding—Sangorski & Sutcliffe—Omar Khayyam. Rubaiyat, London, 1872, third edition, in a magnificent jewelled Peacock binding. £15,000 to £20,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 7: George Eliot. Middlemarch, Edinburgh and London, 1871, first edition in the original parts. £20,000 to £30,000.
  • Forum Auctions
    The Private Library:
    Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
    July 9, 2026
    Forum, July 9: Hassall (Joan) A large collection of over 300 original woodblocks of engravings for various books, v.d., with Hassall's engraver's glass water-globe (Qty) - Est. £10,000-15,000
    Forum, July 9: Eragny Press.- [Bradley (Katherine Harris) & Edith Emma Cooper], "Michael Field." Whym Chow, Flame of Love, one of only 27 copies, inscribed by Bradley, the rarest book from the press, 1914. - Est. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, July 9: [Moore (Thomas Sturge)] [Wood Engravings], 71 wood-engravings printed by David Chambers from the original blocks, the only set on Japanese Hosho paper, from an edition of 5 sets, [1970]. - Est. £3,000-4,000
    Forum Auctions
    The Private Library:
    Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
    July 9, 2026
    Forum, July 9: La Fontaine (Jean de) Contes et Nouvelles en vers, 2 vol., engraved plates after Eisen, fine early 19th century blue morocco, gilt, by Bradel l'ainé, Amsterdam [Paris], 1762. - Est. £2,000-3,000
    Forum, July 9: Erotica.- Prostitution.- Pretty Women of Paris (The); Their Names and Addresses, Qualities and Faults..., [Paris], privately printed at the Press of the Prefecture de Police, 1883. - Est. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, July 9: Vale Press.- Ricketts (Charles) & Lucien Pissarro. De la Typographie et de l'Harmonie de la Page Imprimée…, [one of 216 copies], bound in dark blue morocco tooled in gilt, by Sarah T.Prideaux, 1898. - Est. £1,000-1,500
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    The Private Library:
    Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
    July 9, 2026
    Forum, July 9: Martin (John) Illustrations of the Bible, complete set of 20 mezzotints, good impressions, rarely found in early states, [c.1831-1835]. - Est. £1,000-1,500
    Forum, July 9: Golden Cockerel Press.- Four Gospels of the Lord Jesus Christ (The), one of 500 copies, Mary Gill's copy, Waltham St. Lawrence, 1931 with a signed proof of engraving on japon numbered 10/10 (2) - Est. £5,000-7,000
    Forum, July 9: Boccaccio (Giovanni) The Decameron, 3 vol., vol.1 extra-illustrated by John Buckland Wright with c.150 erotic original drawings in pen & ink and pencil, 1886 [extra-illustrated c.1940]. - Est. £10,000-15,000
    Forum Auctions
    The Private Library:
    Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
    July 9, 2026
    Forum, July 9: Cox (Morris) Collection of Gogmagog Press Books, 35 vol., rare complete collection of printed books issued by the press, limited editions, most signed by Cox, 1957-83. - Est. £10,000-15,000
    Forum, July 9: Wynkyn de Worde.- [Terentius Afer (Publius)] [Comedie...], [Paris, Josse Badius: sold in London by Wynkyn de Worde, & others], [15 July 1504]. - Est. £4,000-6,000
    Forum, July 9: Mosley (James) Ornamented Types. Twenty-Three Alphabets from the Foundry of Louis John Pouchée, 2 vol., one of 10 copies for presentation, from an edition of 210, 1992-93. - Est. £1,000-2,000
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    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, July 16: Inundation papyrus. P.Michael 4, the ‘Inundation papyrus’, a geographical account of the Nile near Canopus, in Greek, remains of two columns from a manuscript scroll on papyrus, Egypt, second century CE. £12,000-18,000
    Forum, July 16: Book of Hours, use of Sarum, manuscript on vellum, 6 full-page miniatures, with famous Middle English inscriptions, Southern Netherlands for the English market, [c.1430]. £30,000-50,000
    Forum, July 16: Qu'ran, Arabic manuscript on burnished, stencilled, and gold-flecked paper, 447ff., Sultanate Gujarat, Ahmadabad, [after 1411 but no later than 1442]. £15,000-20,000
    Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, July 16: Turner (William). A New boke of the natures and properties of all wines that are commonly vsed here in England, rare first edition of the first English book on wine, By William Seres, 1568. £20,000-£30,000
    Forum, July 16: Spenser (Edmund). The Faerie Queene. first edition, Printed [by John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, 1590. £30,000-40,000
    Forum, July 16: Shakespeare (William). The Comedie of Errors, extracted from the first folio, Isaac Jaggard and Edward Blount, 1623. £15,000-20,000
    Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, July 16: Fleming (Ian). Casino Royale, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author, 1953. £40,000-60,000
    Forum, July 16: d'Agoty (Jacques-Fabien Gautier). Anatomie de la Tête, first edition, Paris, chez le Sieur Gautier, 1748. £10,000-15,000
    Forum, July 16: Martial Arts.- Lee (Bruce). 'Praying Mantis style' Kung Fu book, containing numerous annotations, diagrams and graphs in Bruce Lee's hand, c. 1960. £50,000-70,000
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    July 16, 2026
    Forum, July 16: Warre (Capt. Henry James). Sketches in North America and the Oregon Territory, first edition, rare hand-coloured issue, 1848. £30,000-40,000
    Forum, July 16: Norie (John William). The Marine Atlas, or Seaman's Complete Pilot for all the principal places in the known world..., 1826. £30,000-50,000
    Forum, July 16: Mao Tse-tung.- Kim Il-sung.-[Note book for visitors from China to Korea], signed by Mao and Kim, [Beijing, 1954]. £10,000-15,000