Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Rossetti, Christina. Goblin Market. George Harrap, London, 1933.
Price: US$93.75 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Some wear to the covers; the bottom of the spine is torn; pages toned; a good old book. Includes the 4 color Rackham illustrations. The dust jacket has some stains and tears; torn at the base of the spine as well. Illustrator: Rackham, Arthur . Quantity Available: 1. Category: Antiquarian & Rare; Inventory No: 183657.
Seller: Easy Chair Books, Lexington, MO, U.S.A.
Christina Rossetti. Goblin Market. George Harrap, 1933.
Price: US$179.66 + shipping
Description: First edition in original soft wraps. Wrapper with age and handling wear. Some discolouration and loss to head of spine. Internally very good and overall a good copy of this 1st edition.
Seller: Babushka Books & Framers, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom
Rossetti, Christina (Arthur Rackham). Goblin Market. George Harrap, 1933, 1933.
Price: US$235.00 + shipping
Description: VG/G+. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. illustrated by Arthur Rackham, dj strong soiling w/chipping, minor insect damage lower dj edges, light edgewear to wraps, owner's name, info, and gift inscription pencilled front flyleaf, some interior soiling and light foxing, binding tight
Seller: The Way We Were Bookshop, Hampton, VA, U.S.A.
Rossetti, Christina. Goblin Market. George G. Harrap & Co., 1933.
Price: US$235.49 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: George G.Harrap & Co. Ltd.; 1933. First edition. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. Soft cover with clipped matching dust cover. Decorated end papers. Beautiful copy of this quite rare book.
Seller: Book_Attic, Newark on Trent, United Kingdom
Rossetti, Christina. Goblin Market. George C. Harrap and Co. Ltd., London, 1933.
Price: US$256.65 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Pages and Rackham illustrations bright, some occasional light foxing or spotting but mostly clean, binding firm, rubbing and foxing with some spotting to dust jacket, 2cm closed tears at head and foot of jacket spine, some chipping with small loss to edges of dust jacket. Please inquire for photos of condition. Size: 8vo
Seller: Bookcase, Carlisle, United Kingdom
Price: US$288.73 + shipping
Description: [Illustrated Poetry] FIRST TRADE EDITION, printed by R. Clark of Edinburgh in 1933, not to be confused with the 1939 reissue, printed by Jarrold. A vellum-bound limited edition was released simultaneously with this edition. Slim octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.45; [3], blank. With 4 colour illustrations plus 19 black and white drawings. Pictorial cream wrappers printed in yellow, brown and black depicting goblins and fruits, yapp edges, pictorial end-papers, page edges untrimmed, dust-jacket priced at 5s. Contents fresh, collector's attractive bookplate, jacket very slightly toned. A fine copy. Riall p.179.
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
Christina Rossetti ,. Goblin Market. George Harrap, london, 1933.
Price: US$384.96 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: A very nice copy, four beautiful colour plates as called for, dj a little grubby on the back a 1" tear at the bottom of the spine slightly pulled at the top and a little browned , gift inscription inside on the decorated EPs
Seller: VANESSA PARKER RARE BOOKS, Westport, MAYO, Ireland
Price: US$734.03 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Soft cover with original limp vellum slightly wrinkled and some duskiness, gilt titles on front. Number 145 of 410 copies of this edition. Four full page colour plates by Arthur Rackham including frontispiece with number of black and white illustrations in the text, 43 untrimmed pages. No slip case. 1st edition thus published in 1933 and in very good condition, and signed by Rackham.
Seller: McGonigles', Cerne Abbas, United Kingdom
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: 43 pp. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. 8vo, publisher's gilt-lettered limp vellum, in slipcase. First edition; No. 380 of 410 copies, signed by Arthur Rackham. A fine copy in a dust-soiled and worn slipcase, splitting at joints and missing a piece of one short section.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
ROSSETTI, CHRISTINA. GOBLIN MARKET. HARRAP, 1933.
Price: US$1200.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: London: George Harrap, (1933). First Rackham edition, deluxe issue, copy 330 of 410signed 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
Seller: Vagabond Books, A.B.A.A., PASADENA, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1251.18 + shipping
Description: 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). Latimore & Haskell, p. 69; Riall, p. 179. 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.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Price: US$1283.27 + shipping
Description: 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). Latimore & Haskell, p. 69; Riall, p. 179. 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, black and white illustrations throughout. Half-title and title page printed in black and gilt. Vellum slightly cockled, hint of foxing to covers, contents clean and fresh; slipcase rubbed and lightly worn, a couple of panels discreetly repaired: a near-fine copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI. GOBLIN MARKET. George Harrap & CO. LTD, London, 1933.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Description: A very nice copy in a very good slipcase Illustrated and Signed by ARTHUR RACKHAM. Number 209/400 copies. Exceptional clean and bright copy. Four full-page illustrations in color with nineteen drawings in B/W with pictorial end papers. Case has wear with rubbing to corners and age toning. Gold gilt to cover is bright. Very fine condition in limp vellum covered boards. Laid in brochure from Helen Gentry Juveniles.
Seller: Booklegger's Fine Books ABAA, Park Ridge, IL, U.S.A.
RACKHAM, Arthur; ROSSETTI, Christina. Goblin Market. London: William Heinemann, 1933, 1933.
Price: US$1950.00 + shipping
Description: One of 410 Copies Signed by Arthur Rackham [RACKHAM, Arthur, illustrator]. ROSSETTI, Christina. Goblin Market. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. London: George G. Harrap & Co., Ltd. [1933]. One of 410 copies signed by Arthur Rackham, this being copy No. 403. Octavo (9 3/4 x 5 3/4 inches; 228 x 146 mm.). 44, [1], [3, blank] pp. Four full-page color plates and nineteen drawings in black and white. Publisher's limp vellum, front cover decoratively lettered in gilt, pictorial end-papers in green and white, top edge gilt, others uncut. A fine copy in the original (chipped) glassine wrapper and slipcase with limitation label with matching number. Chemised in a full tan morocco slipcase. Chemise with bookplate of renowned collector Richard Manney. Goblin Market (composed in April 1859 and published in 1862) is a narrative poem by Christina Rossetti. In a letter to her publisher, Rossetti claimed that the poem, which is interpreted frequently as having features of remarkably sexual imagery, was not meant for children. However, in public Rossetti often stated that the poem was intended for children, and went on to write many children's poems. When the poem appeared in her first volume of poetry, Goblin Market and Other Poems, it was illustrated by her brother, the Pre-Raphaelite artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Goblin Market is about two close young sisters, Laura and Lizzie, who hear the sounds of the goblin fruit market from their house where they reside by themselves. At first they try to ignore the enticing calls of the goblin men but eventually Laura decides to go out and see what's happening. Lizzie warns her not to, but Laura is too curious. The goblin men offer her their fruit, and Laura thinks it looks tasty. She doesn't have any money, but the goblins offer to take a piece of her golden hair instead. So Laura gives up some of her hair, gorges herself on goblin fruit, and heads on home to her sister. But after eating all that goblin fruit, Laura starts to waste away. Lizzie gets worried and decides to go down to the market to see what's what. The goblin men try to tempt her the way they tempted Laura, but Lizzie stands firm. The goblin men turn violent and try to stuff fruit in Lizzie's mouth, but she squeezes her mouth shut, so they just end up getting juice all over her. Lizzie runs back to their house all covered in goblin fruit juice. Laura kisses the juice off her sister's cheeks and is miraculously, but painfully, healed. Years later, Laura and Lizzie are both wives and mothers, and they describe their experience in the goblin market to their own children as a cautionary tale about the importance of sisterly love. Latimore and Haskell, p 69; Riall, p. 179.
Seller: David Brass Rare Books, Inc., Calabasas, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$2000.00 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: Numbered copy 18, of 410 copies, 400 of which were for sale. 8vo. 45 pp. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham: four color plates, nineteen b/w drawings. Vellum binding with gilt titling on the front panel. The book is very fine; in truth it is in superb condition. The near-fine slipcase has a printed title label on the top edge.
Seller: Peter Keisogloff Rare Books, Inc., Brecksville, OH, U.S.A.
Rossetti, Christina (Rackham, Arthur). Goblin Market. George C. Harrap, 1933.
Price: US$5000.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First Edition. A sharp copy of this limited edition of 410 copies SIGNED by Arthur Rackham. The book is in nice shape. The binding is tight, and the boards are crisp with light wear to the spine and edges. The pages are clean with no writing, marks or bookplates in the book. Overall, a lovely copy SIGNED by Rackham in collector's condition. We buy SIGNED Rackham books.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.