The Tale of the Headless Horseman
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Harrap, 1928.
Second edition. 4to. Green cloth, with gilt lettering and vignette to the upper cover. Top edge gilt. In the pictorial dustwrapper, which has a colour plate on the wrapper not included in the book. Pictorial endpapers depict a double page colour scene, pictorial title page, eight colour plates and many line drawings. A near fine copy, one or two spots of foxing, in a very good dustwrapper indeed, which is clean and attractive, with just a slither or loss to the top of the spine.
A comical ghost story. The tale is set near the rural port of Tarry Town, "a name given by the good housewives of the adjacent country, from the inveterate propensity of their husbands to linger about the village tavern." Nearby the secluded glen, Sleepy Hollow, is said to inhabited by ghosts, "the whole neighbourhood abounds with local tales, haunted spots and twilight superstitions" the most infamous of which is the Headless Horseman.
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