Tolkien Collector's Guide
Sign In
Tolkien Collector's Guide
Important links:

Guide to Tolkien's Letters
-
Winner of the 2019 Tolkien Society award for Best Website

12

'Goblin Feet' sighting

4 Mar, 2009
2009-3-4 10:05:02 PM UTC

Goblin Feet (first appearing in Oxford Poetry 1915) has been reprinted quite a bit, but I just ran across an early reprint that I hadn't known about before:

The Open Door to Poetry: An Anthology edited by Anne Stokes, First Edition 1931, Charles Scribner’s Sons, pp 304

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=270350031523

The eBay auction was rather pricey (and didn't get any bids) - I have seen this volume elsewhere online right now for $10-$20 in various conditions. Just didn't know it had "Tolkein's" Goblin Feet in it. This title isn't mentioned in Hammond or TolkienBooks.net so I thought I would share it (and add it to the guide.)
4 Mar, 2009
2009-3-4 10:19:55 PM UTC
I have a rather poor copy. It didn't get listed at TolkienBooks as it was only issued in the US. I haven't seen it in a jacket, but there again I haven't been searching for one that hard....
5 Mar, 2009
2009-3-5 12:53:29 AM UTC
Good point Deagol! I certainly didn't mean to rag on your site.

I will keep an eye out for a jacketed copy just for posterity. Not going to look all that hard either.
4 Feb, 2013
2013-2-4 8:19:40 PM UTC
I bought this recently which is a book from 1929 which contains Goblin Feet.

The scant bibliographic information on the internet suggests it was published in London though it was printed in USA.

It lacks a dust-jacket so I can't verify the price.

The text differs slightly from Fifty Poems for Children, eg "gray" for "grey"

Other than that I can find no information about it other than some material about the editor.

http://www.mainlesson.com/displayauthor.php?author=olcott

I have uploaded some images.

414_5110194af140a.jpg 1224X1123 px

414_5110195257ebc.jpg 844X633 px

414_511019659c2c6.jpg 1234X1816 px

414_51101972ba5d3.jpg 1384X802 px

414_5110197d458cd.jpg 1773X2364 px
4 Feb, 2013
2013-2-4 10:45:54 PM UTC
What a wonderful book. I want one!
4 Feb, 2013
2013-2-4 10:55:11 PM UTC
Thank you, Deagol.

Finding something that makes you envious has made my day.
8 Feb, 2013
2013-2-8 7:57:44 PM UTC
Gawain, you said your copy lacked a dust-jacket. Amazon has listed the book with the full title Wonder Tales from Fairy Isles: England, Cornwall, Wales, Scotland, Man and Ireland. Does this appear on the flyleaf, or do you think this full title (if it's correct) appeared on the dust-jacket (if there was one)?
8 Feb, 2013
2013-2-8 9:22:34 PM UTC
I'm also interested in this, as far as I am aware Tolkien did not want this poem to be republished after the 1920s, so I think rights issues may be interesting on this item.
8 Feb, 2013
2013-2-8 10:03:29 PM UTC
In reply to Morgan, the answer is yes. That is the same book - the full title appears on the title page - I have uploaded an image.

What I find intriguing about the acknowledgements is that the editor acknowledges permission from Tolkien which implies she actually corresponded with Tolkien.

That is in contrast with the Open Door to Poetry anthology mentioned by Uruloke earlier in the thread. You can see here that the editor for that book acknowledges Basil Blackwell for permission.

http://it.paperblog.com/goblin-feet-d ... -americana-1931-1611733/.

414_5115761b29b1b.jpg 430X487 px

414_511576287d36f.jpg 220X615 px
21 Mar, 2022 (edited)
2022-3-21 7:39:49 PM UTC
Just bought one of these (Wonder Tales from Fairy Isles), as this post is quite old, is anyone the wiser about it having a dust-jacket?
12
Jump to Last
All original content ©2024 by the submitting authors. Terms of Use | Privacy Policy | Cookie Policy | Contact Us