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Price: US$739.12 + 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.
Price: US$1259.87 + 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$1292.17 + 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.
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.