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A book of the Hudson. / Collected from the various works of Diedrich Knickerbocker. Edited by Geoffry Crayon.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection AC8 I844 B849h
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Irving, Washington, 1783-1859.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hudson River (N.Y. and N.J.).
- Genre:
- Short stories.
- Penn Provenance:
- Benjamin, W. (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy 2)
- Physical Description:
- viii pages, 11 unnumbered pages-215 pages ; 16 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : G. P. Putnam, 1849.
- Contents:
- Communipaw.
- Guests from Gibbet island.
- Peter Stuyvesant's voyage up the Hudson.
- The chronicle of Bearn island.
- The legend of Sleepy Hollow.
- Dolph Heyliger.
- Rip Van Winkle.
- Wolfert Webber.
- Notes:
- "R. Craighead, Printer and Stereotyper, 112 Fulton Street, New York."--T.p. verso.
- First printing. Publisher's advertisements (16 p.) at end. P. [1] of catalog dated March 1849; p. 16 of catalog dated November, 1848.--Cf. BAL.
- Green cloth with sides wholly blindstamped with a vignette of Rip van Winkle, gun and a dog sitting behind him in an oval frame.
- Local Notes:
- Culture Class Collection copy 1 has [2] loose leaves with bibliographical information about this book laid in.
- Culture Class Collection copy 2 has autograph of W. Benjamin, Jr., Apr., 1849.
- Cited in:
- BAL, 10170
- OCLC:
- 1153601
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