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Illustr by NC Wyeth, 10 x 7.25, cloth with pict paper label on front cover, 86 pp, covers very worn, extremities bumped and fraying, spine ends chipped, inner hinges broken, rusty paper clip marks on last few pages, former owner's ink name inside front cover, in fairly rough condition but SIGNED BY THE ILLUSTRATOR N.C. WYEH (dated 1922) ON HALF TITLE. Wyeth also contributed a couple of ink spots to half-title above signature.

Rip Van Winkle is a short story by the American author Washington Irving, published in 1819 as part of The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. The story is set in New York's Catskill Mountains and follows Rip Van Winkle, a Dutch American villager who falls asleep before the American Revolution and wakes up twenty years later to a very different world. His disappearance and return are met with incredulity by those around him. This tale is known for its themes of change and continuity, the American past, and individualism.