A Danish <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/collectibles/vintage-poster/film" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">movie poster</a> for the <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=walt+disney+studios&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Walt Disney Studios</a> film <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=walt+disney+studios&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Pinocchio</a>.<ul><li>Walt Disney Studios.</li><li>Produced for the first Danish release, 1950.</li><li>Linen backed.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul>

Danish Pinocchio Movie Poster

Original Pinocchio artwork used to create the British front of house stills.<ul><li>The majority of original artworks were discarded by the studios, and it is therefore very rare to find one.</li><li>Walt Disney Studios.</li><li>Gouache on artboard.</li><li>Conservation framed with UV plexiglass in a Sapele wood frame with a card mount.</li></ul>This original artwork only surfaced a few years ago. It had been in an English collection since the 1940s. Prior to this discovery, no other Pinocchio artwork for posters or front of house stills had been seen.

Pinocchio Drawing for Front of House Stills

A production <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=animation+drawing&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">animation drawing</a> from <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Walt+Disney&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Walt Disney</a>'s <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Pinocchio&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Pinocchio</a>, 1940.<ul><li>Walt Disney Studios.</li><li>Hand-drawn in graphite and colored-pencils.</li><li>Stamped with production number and sequence 4.4.</li><li>This work is presented matted.</li></ul>

Pinocchio Production Animation Drawing

A first edition of The Adventures of Pinocchio in English.<ul><li>Carlo Collodi (Italian).</li><li>Translated by Mary Alice Murray.</li><li>Illustrated by E. Mazzanti (incorrectly printed as "C. Mazzanti").</li><li>London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1892.&nbsp;</li><li>232 pages.</li><li>Bound in the original decorative cloth with the blue floral design repeated on the text block edges and endpapers, half title and title printed in red and black.&nbsp;</li><li>Housed in custom blue quarter goatskin clamshell box.</li></ul>

Story of a Puppet, Or the Adventures of Pinocchio

A first UK edition of The Story of a Puppet or <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=The+Adventures+of+Pinocchio&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Adventures of Pinocchio</a>.<ul><li>Carlo Collodi [pseudonym of Carlo Lorenzini] (Italian).</li><li>Translated from the Italian by M.A. Murray.</li><li>London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1892.</li><li>Twelve-mo.</li><li>Half-title and title printed in red and black, frontispiece (with tissue guard) and illustrations by Enrico Mazzanti.</li><li>First edition in English, first issue with illustrator's name misprinted as 'C. Mazzanti.'</li><li>Patterned endpapers; publisher's patterned cloth.</li></ul> The rare first UK edition of Collodi's classic for children, originally published in book-form in Florence, Italy in 1883. Previously serialised in a children's newspaper, Giornale per i bambini (1881-83) the work started out as La storia di un burattino, changed later to Le Avventure di Pinocchio. The author Lorenzini, a journalist &amp; educationalist, took the name Collodi from his mother's native village in Tuscany. Memorably translated into an animated musical fantasy by Walt Disney in 1940, their second feature film; now considered one of the greatest animated films ever made.

The Story of a Puppet or The Adventures of Pinocchio First UK Edition

Original hand-drawn pencil background layout drawing from Disney's animated 1940 feature film Pinocchio, featuring the ship's mast inside the whale.<ul><li>Drawn prior to the 1940 release, the final background is quite similar to this drawing from Pinocchio's reunion with Geppetto.</li><li>Mounted on archival, acid-free and 4-ply paper mat.</li><li>Photo of screen capture is for reference only and not part of this sale.</li></ul>

Pinocchio Production Background Layout Drawing

<a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/first-edition?locale=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">First English edition</a> of Collodi's classic children's tale, The Adventures of Pinocchio.<ul><li>Carlo Collodi (Italian).</li><li>Translated from the Italian by Mary Alice Murray (English).</li><li>Illustrated by C. Mazzanti (Italian).</li><li>London:&nbsp;T. Fisher Unwin,&nbsp;1892.</li><li>232 pages.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>Includes illustrations and frontispiece with tissue guard and with title page printed in red and black.</li><li>Reviews from The Bookman (Jan. 1892) and a TLS review (1920) tipped in to the rear endpapers</li><li>Bound in publisher's printed cloth, decorated edges following the design of the covers.</li></ul>

The Story of a Puppet or The Adventures of Pinocchio

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