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Published: 1893. 1st Thus. DESCRIPTION: Green gilt illustrated cloth. Fifty three illustration by George H. Boughton. Language: English. Book Condition: Very Good: Very minor wear to otherwise sharp corners, edges and spine ends. Fresh clean cloth. Tightly bound with clean unmarked endpapers and strong hinges. Light pencil book collector annotations to fly pages. Spotting to front and rear fly pages. Occasional minor mark or spots to some pages. Bookplate to front paste down (Peter M. Scott). DJ Condition: No DJ. Pages xi, 218. Size: 18.5cm by 12.5cm.

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.