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Goblin Market by RACKHAM, Arthur; ROSSETTI, Christina
by RACKHAM, Arthur; ROSSETTI, Christina
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Goblin Market
by RACKHAM, Arthur; ROSSETTI, Christina
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Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Co., 1933. First American Trade Edition
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[RACKHAM, Arthur, illustrator]. ROSSETTI, Christina. Goblin Market. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Co., [1933].
First American trade edition.
Octavo (8 3/4 x 5 3/4 inches; 222 x 146 mm.). 44, [1], [3, blank] pp. Four full-page color plates and nineteen drawings in black and white.
Publisher's 'variant' red cloth over boards with a copy of the color plate that faces p. 36 "White and golden Lizzie stood", pictorial end-papers in green and white. A fine copy in the original color pictorial dust jacket with identical color illustration on front panel. Minimal wear to dust jacket spine extremities.
We have not seen this variant binding before. The American issue normally has a color pictorial panel on the front cover in keeping with the American issues of the three other Christmas books.
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.
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[RACKHAM, Arthur, illustrator]. ROSSETTI, Christina. Goblin Market. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Co., [1933].
First American trade edition.
Octavo (8 3/4 x 5 3/4 inches; 222 x 146 mm.). 44, [1], [3, blank] pp. Four full-page color plates and nineteen drawings in black and white.
Publisher's 'variant' red cloth over boards with a copy of the color plate that faces p. 36 "White and golden Lizzie stood", pictorial end-papers in green and white. A fine copy in the original color pictorial dust jacket with identical color illustration on front panel. Minimal wear to dust jacket spine extremities.
We have not seen this variant binding before. The American issue normally has a color pictorial panel on the front cover in keeping with the American issues of the three other Christmas books.
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.
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London: George Harrap, 1939. later printing. Paperback. Fair. 6 x 9 in. Paper wraps. Color frontis. Condition is FAIR ; front wrap detached, spine paper chipped. Text binding is fone. Frontis very good, text unmarked. Chil. Stax.
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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)
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Goblin Market
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London: George C. Harrap and Co., 1933. 1st. Good/Fair. Arthur Rackham. Softcover, card covers in a ragged dust jacket. 4 color plates and black & white illustrations within text by Arthur Rackham. Decorated end papers. Pictorial card covers with light edgewear, dust jacket fair only with chipping, soiling. Record # 381267
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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..
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