NON-EXPORTABLE

TITLE: Rip Van Winkle
AUTHOR: Washington Irving with illustrations by Arthur Rackham
PUBLISHER: William Heinemann Ltd. - Doubleday Page & Co.
PLACE: London, New York
YEAR: 1905
EDITION: First
NO.OF PAGES: viii + 60 tipped-in colour plates on heavy green paper along with captioned tissue guards, green endpapers
BINDING: Publisher's original green cloth boards with gilt pictorial title to upper board and gilt title at the spine
SIZE:
Height: 26 cm.br.
Width: 19 cm
Depth: 3.8 cm

SMALL ARMORIAL BOOKPLATE INSCRIBED "ROBERT MILNES-CREWE" ON THE FRONT PASTEDOWN

CONDITION:
This lot will be sold in "as is" condition.
There may be some minor tears/creases scratches, or holes commensurate with age that may not be visible in the images.

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