1885; Arthur Hinds, Publisher, 3 West 3rd Street, New York "Daintie Edition"; cloth boards; smaller book (5.75 in. x 4.6 in), 77 pages; binding is good; minor discoloration of some pages but not bad; nice inscription from 1894 owner; boards good with minor ageing/fading.
 
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"Rip Van Winkle" is a short story by American author Washington Irving originally published in 1819. Written while Irving was living in Birmingham, England, it is part of a collection entitled The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. Although the story is set in New York's Catskill Mountains, Irving later admitted, "When I wrote the story, I had never been on the Catskills."  The story's title character is a Dutch-American villager living around the time of the American Revolutionary War.