Books

colour endpapers; colour frontispiece captioned A Village in the Catskill Mountains tissue protected; colour title page; 8 colour illustrations with several b/w illustrations; publisher's colour paste down on front cover board in tact; gilt top end pages; top/bottom spine minor shelf wear; c1921.

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.