1914 Knickerbocker Papers, Being Rip Van Winkle & The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

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Limited Edition, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, With Dustwrapper

A limited edition work, limited to one-thousand copies, of which this is numbered 353.

In the publisher's original quarter cloth with paper to the boards, and with the original dust wrapper.

Two important short stories by Washington Irving, 'Rip Van Winkle' and 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow'.

'Rip Van Winkle' follows a villager in colonial America, Rip Van Winkle, who meets mysterious Dutchmen and drinks their liquor, then falling into a sleep for twenty years. When he awakes he discovers that he missed the American Revolution.

'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow' is an important gothic story, set in a secluded glen renowned for ghosts and a haunting atmosphere.

By Washington Irving, a noted author of the nineteenth century, one of the first American writers to earn acclaim in Europe.