Rip Van Winkle by Irving, Washington - 1939

New York: Garden City, 1939. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Good/Poor. Illustrations by Everett Shinn.

Color pictorial covers. In color pictorial dust jacket. Outstanding color lithographs by Everett Shinn. First Edition, Thus.

The bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear, rubbed corners and edges. The dust jacket is quite worn, Loss on the spine, and rear flap.
. 'Rip Van Winkle' is a short story by the American author Washington Irving, first published in 1819. It follows a Dutch-American villager in colonial America named Rip Van Winkle who meets mysterious Dutchmen, imbibes their strong liquor and falls deeply asleep in the Catskill Mountains. He awakes 20 years later to a very changed world, having missed the American Revolution.

Background Information:
Everett Shinn was an American painter and member of the urban realist Ashcan School. Shinn started as a newspaper illustrator in Philadelphia, demonstrating a rare facility for depicting animated movement, a skill that would, however, soon be eclipsed by photography. [wiki]