Search Results: goblin market by rossetti christina arthur

Pook Press, 2013-02-19. Hardcover. Good.

George G Harrap & Co 1939. Octavo, illus light card covers, black lettering to front cover, illus eps & prelims, frontispiece, 37pp, illus, VG (light to moderate cracking & scuffing to spine & cover edges, minor discolouration to covers, occasional moderate cracking to gutters, occasional smatterings of foxing throughout) in scruffy G+ presentation envelope (v heavy creasing & scuffing/tearing, moderate to heavy staining)

Lippincott (1933), 1933T. hardcover. Good. . Dust jacket shows moderate wear, tear, chipping, rubbing, and foxing. Cover shows minor wear. Pages show minor scattered foxing. Includes full color plates by Rackham.

London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd. 1939, 1st thus. (Mass market paperback) 36pp, [1]. Very good. 8vo. In original wrappers, top cover illustrated after Arthur Rackham. Top and rear wrapper panel flaps. Age-toning at edges, as is most common. Edgewear, with light chipping at extremities. Small 1 / 2" split in paper beginning at head of spine; closed, scarcely noticeable. Decorative illustrated EPs. Starting at p8 / 9, all leaves remain secure. Else internally fine; bright and clean. With Rackham's illustrations throughout. Colour frontispiece..

London: George Harrap & Co. Ltd., 1939. [Illustrated Poetry] REISSUE. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.37 [3]. With a colour frontispiece and 19 black and white drawings by Rackham. Pictorial cream paper wrappers printed in yellow, brown and black depicting goblins and fruits, with yapp edges, and pictorial end-papers. Light wear and a few minor tear to covers, with a small brown smudge to rear. Near fine.

London:: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd.,, [1933].. First edition; No. 380 of 410 copies, signed by Arthur Rackham.. publisher's gilt-lettered limp vellum, in slipcase.. A fine copy in a dust-soiled and worn slipcase, splitting at joints and missing a piece of one short section. . 8vo,. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham..

London: George Harrap, (1933). First Rackham edition, deluxe issue, copy 330 of 550 signed by Rackham. Publisher's flexible vellum gilt, decorated endpapers by Rackham. 9 1/4 x 6 inches (23.5 x 15 cm); 46, [2] pp.; 4 color plates (including frontispiece), illustrations in text. Slipcase slightly worn, covers a bit cockled as usual, generally fine copy/.

London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd,, 1933. Come buy, come buy Signed limited edition, number 46 of 410 copies signed by the illustrator. Rossetti's Goblin Market, first published in 1862, is a fantastical narrative poem, interpreted variously as a feminist tract, a capitalist critique, an allegory for drug addiction, and a children's story; Rackham's delightfully eerie illustrations are notably well-suited to the text's looming sense of danger. Rackham's nephew, the writer Walter Starkie, "confessed to thinking Rackham was a goblin 'in his shabby blue suit and carpet slippers, hopping about the studio with a palette on one arm, waving a paintbrush in his hand'" (ODNB). Octavo. Original limp vellum, front cover lettered in gilt, illustrated endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Colour frontispiece and three colour plates, black and white illustrations in the text, all by Rackham. Extremities a little bumped, some minor soiling to covers, occasional foxing: a very good copy. Latimore & Haskell,… Read More

London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd,, 1933. Come buy our orchards fruits, / Come buy, come buy... Signed limited edition, one of 410 copies signed by the illustrator, this an out-of-series copy, marked "special" by Rackham on the limitation page. Rossetti's Goblin Market, first published in 1862, is a fantastical narrative poem, interpreted variously as a feminist tract, a capitalist critique, an allegory for drug addiction, and a children's story; Rackham's delightfully eery illustrations are notably well-suited to the text's looming sense of danger. Rackham's nephew, the writer Walter Starkie, "confessed to thinking Rackham was a goblin 'in his shabby blue suit and carpet slippers, hopping about the studio with a palette on one arm, waving a paintbrush in his hand'" (ODNB). Octavo. Original limp vellum, front cover lettered in gilt, illustrated endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. With the original slipcase, paper label to upper panel printed in black. Colour frontispiece, 3 colour plates,… Read More

London. Fine/Near Fine. Limited to 410 copies signed by the illustrator, of which this is 331. Fine book bound in original vellum with gilt to spine and front board. Pictorial endpapers. Housed in a Near Fine slipcase with original paper label to top panel and retaining the original glassine jacket in exceptionally nice condition with trivial nicking to top edges. Among Christina Rossetti's most influential works, here combined with the dark and seductive illustrations of Rackham. "Set in a fairy world and exploring themes of temptation, sacrifice, and salvation, Goblin Market tells the story of a fraught encounter between two sisters, Laura and Lizzie, and evil goblin merchants. While Laura exchanges a lock of her golden hair for the chance to taste the goblins' enchanted 'fruit forbidden'...and the goblins violently attack Lizzie, smearing their fruits 'against her mouth' in an attempt to force her to eat" (BL). Ultimately, it is the sisters' reliance and trust on each other that restores them to… Read More

1933. Original artwork for Rossetti's poem Published within Rackham's edition of Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market in 1933. This fine watercolour appears opposite page 44 and is one of the four colour plates. Rackham's work for Harrap in the 1930s saw a return to the artist's early style. Fred Gettings in an essay on "Rackham's Best Book Illustrations" states that Goblin Market "might easily have become an exercise in grotesqueries" but that Rackham's work "has been infused with a delicacy of feeling and humour which touches the poem's own qualities very well, but here we have all the elements of early Rackham..." Original drawing (250 x 160 mm) on artist's board (259 x 177 mm with "Smith's Specially Prepared Boards" printed on reverse), fine ink and watercolour, signed ("Arthur Rackham") lower left, mounted, framed, and glazed (framed size 404 x 317 mm). Fine and unfaded. Fred Gettings, Arthur Rackham, 1976, p. 162.