Rip Van Winkle; Washington Irving; Illustrated by Arthur Rackham; Hardback, green boards; 1916 Printed in Great Britain; Illustrations in color; page binding is strong; some minor discoloration of some pages but not bad; green boards good with minor fading; no dust jacket; nice historical book with wonderful illustrations.
 
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Rip Van Winkle is a short story by American author Washington Irving 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-Americanvillager living around the time of the American Revolutionary War.