Rip Van Winkle
by Irving, Washington
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0803712642
- ISBN 13
- 9780803712645
- Seller
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Manlius, New York, United States
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About This Item
Hardcover Book in Dust Jacket. First Printing of this edition. Near Fine with a square and tight binding and bright, clean contents. Jacket shows very gentle rubbing. A very nice copy that appears unopened and unread. With 51 full color illustrations by Arthur Rackham.
Synopsis
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow first appeared in a story collection by Irving called The Sketch-Book Of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. This first classic collection of American short stories also featured the popular Rip Van Winkle . The fantastical portions of Irving's works were inspired not only by his travels around Europe and hearing old folk tales and mythology, but also by a visit to upstate New York in the Catskill Mountains as a youth. His exposure to the old Dutch customs and ghost stories around Tarrytown, New York planted the seeds for his Headless Horseman character.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Limestone Village Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1420
- Title
- Rip Van Winkle
- Author
- Irving, Washington
- Illustrator
- Rackham, Arthur
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover Book in Dust Jacket
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0803712642
- ISBN 13
- 9780803712645
- Publisher
- Dial Books
- Place of Publication
- New Yorl
- Date Published
- 1992
- Pages
- 124
- Size
- 26 cm
- Keywords
- Catskill Mountains Region (N.Y.); Classics; Fiction; General; Juvenile Fiction; New York (State); Hudson River Valley;
Terms of Sale
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Returns accepted for 15 days after receipt of book if book does not meet condition as stated in the description.
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Unopened
- A state in which all or some of the pages of a book have not been separated from the adjacent pages, caused by a traditional...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...