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Rip Van Winkle

Washington Irving

First published June 1819
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story


The first publication of this story was in the first installment of The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., which went on sale on June 23, 1819.

Two spellings of the pseudonym in the subtitle are represented in WorldCat library record headings, and not at ISFDB as of March 2019: • Diedrick Knickerbocker, {{OCLC|31158763}} • Diedrich Knickerbocker, dozens of records The latter is the canonical spelling.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
June 1819 The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.: No. I C. S. Van Winkle Collection 55
1820 The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. Collection
1840 The Romancist and Novelist's Library: The Best Works of the Best Authors; Volume III J. Clements Anthology 78
1850 Rip Van Winkle: A Posthumous Writing of Diedrich Knickerbocker Joseph Cundall Chapbook
1877 Rip Van Winkle Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger Chapbook 21
December 1893 Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Macmillan and Co. Collection |1
1894 Cover Rip Van Winkle Joseph Knight Company Chapbook
1897 The Garden of Romance: Romantic Tales of All Time New Amsterdam Book Co. Anthology 148
1897 The Garden of Romance: Romantic Tales of All Time Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Anthology 148
1899 Cover Rip Van Winkle L. C. Page Chapbook
1899 Cover Rip Van Winkle Samuel E. Cassino Chapbook
1902 Classic Library of Famous Literature: Vol. 4, Wonder The Bodleian Society Anthology 113
1905 Short Story Classics (American) P. F. Collier & Son Anthology 3
1905 Cover Rip Van Winkle Doubleday, Page & Company Chapbook
September 1905 Rip Van Winkle William Heinemann Chapbook
January 1907 Rip Van Winkle William Heinemann Chapbook
August 1908 Rip Van Winkle William Heinemann Chapbook
May 1909 Rip Van Winkle William Heinemann Chapbook
November 1910 Rip Van Winkle William Heinemann Chapbook
October 1916 Cover Rip Van Winkle William Heinemann Chapbook
1917 Rip Van Winkle William Heinemann Chapbook
1917 American Fiction P. F. Collier & Son Omnibus 275
1919 Rip Van Winkle William Heinemann Chapbook
1921 Rip Van Winkle David McKay Chapbook
1925 Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow The Macmillan Company Collection |1
1929 American Folk and Fairy Tales Charles Scribner's Sons Collection 77
1930 American Short Stories of the Nineteenth Century J. M. Dent & Sons Anthology |3
1933 The Arthur Rackham Fairy Book: A Book of Old Favourites J. B. Lippincott Anthology
1933 Cover The Arthur Rackham Fairy Book: A Book of Old Favourites George G. Harrap & Co. Anthology
1939 Cover Rip Van Winkle Garden City Publishing Co. Chapbook
1939 Cover Tellers of Tales: 100 Short Stories from the United States, England, France, Russia and Germany Doubleday, Doran Anthology 21
1939 Cover The Bedside Book of Famous American Stories Random House Anthology 28
April 1941 Cover Three Tales from The Sketch Book Hatier Collection 7
1942 The Best Known Works of Washington Irving The Book League of America Omnibus 355
1946 Cover The Blue Flower: Best Stories of the Romanticists Roy Publishers Anthology 584
1957 Cover Rip van Winkel Wereldbibliotheek Chapbook
1958 Cover Antología de cuentos de misterio y terror Editorial Labor Anthology 307
1959 American Short Stories: 1820 to the Present Scott, Foresman and Company Anthology 4
1959 Cover Tales of Mystery and Imagination Cricket Records Collection |2
1963 Cover The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle Disneyland Records Collection |2
1964 Cover The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories Airmont Books Collection 40
1964 Classic American Short Stories Barron's Educational Series Anthology 3
1965 The Dimensions of the Short Story: A Critical Anthology Dodd, Mead & Co. Anthology 11
1967 Cover Magic!: A Treasury for Young Readers Funk & Wagnalls Anthology 85
1967 Cover Rip Van Winkle; The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories The Easton Press Collection 32
1968 Cover Rip Van Winkle Caedmon Chapbook
1969 Cover Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Literary Records Collection |1
May 1971 Cover Witches, Wraiths & Warlocks: Supernatural Tales of the American Renaissance Fawcett Premier Anthology 308
1972 Cover Gothic Tales of Terror: Classic Horror Stories from Great Britain, Europe, and the United States, 1765-1840 Taplinger Anthology 785
October 1972 Cover Once Upon a Time: The Fairy Tale World of Arthur Rackham Studio / The Viking Press Anthology 13
March 1973 Cover Witches, Wraiths & Warlocks: Supernatural Tales of the American Renaissance Fawcett Premier Anthology 308
August 1973 Cover Great Tales of Terror from Europe and America: Gothic Stories of Horror and Romance, 1765-1840 Penguin Books Anthology
January 1974 Cover Strange Adventures in Time J. M. Dent Anthology 9
1978 Cover Fireside Reader Reader's Digest Anthology 149
June 1980 Cover The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories Airmont Books Collection 40
1982 Washington Irving's Tales of the Supernatural Stemmer House Collection
1982 Cover Washington Irving's Tales of the Supernatural Stemmer House Collection 29
1983 Cover Over the Rainbow: Tales of Fantasy and Imagination Octopus Books Anthology 168
1983 Cover Great Tales of Terror from Europe and America: Gothic Stories of Horror and Romance, 1765-1840 Penguin Books Anthology 343
1984 Cover Over the Rainbow: Tales of Fantasy and Imagination Cathay Books Anthology 168
1988 Cover Fiction 100: An Anthology of Short Stories Macmillan Anthology 691
October 1988 Cover Witches, Wraiths and Warlocks: Supernatural Tales of the American Renaissance Fawcett Premier / Ballantine Anthology 306
October 1992 Cover Discoveries: Fifty Shades of the Quest: Second Edition Oxford University Press Anthology 586
1994 Cover The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Bloomsbury Collection
1994 Cover The American Short Story: A Treasury of the Memorable and Familiar by the Great American Writers from Washington Irving to Saul Bellow State Street Press Anthology 1
1994 Cover The American Short Story: A Treasury of the Memorable and Familiar by the Great American Writers from Washington Irving to Saul Bellow Galahad Books Anthology 1
1995 Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Penguin Books Collection 1
November 1997 Cover The Riverside Anthology of Short Fiction: Convention and Innovation Houghton Mifflin Anthology 45
June 1998 Cover American Fairy Tales: From Rip Van Winkle to the Rootabaga Stories Hyperion Books Anthology
1999 Cover American Gothic: An Anthology 1787 - 1916 Blackwell Publishers Anthology 19
1999 Cover American Gothic: An Anthology 1787 - 1916 Blackwell Publishers Anthology 19
January 2000 The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. Project Gutenberg Collection |5
2001 Cover The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle Watermill Press Collection 53
January 2002 Cover The Bottle Imp / El diablo de la botella / Rip Van Winkle Anglo-Didacto Anthology
January 2002 Cover The Bottle Imp / El diablo de la botella / Rip Van Winkle Anglo-Didacto Anthology
September 2002 Cover The American Fantasy Tradition Tor Anthology 29
September 2003 Cover The American Fantasy Tradition Tor Anthology 29
October 2003 Cover Racconti fantastici Donzelli Collection 5
March 2005 Cover Washington Irving's Rip Van Winkle Dover Publications Chapbook
July 2008 Cover About Time: The Forerunners of Time Travel and Temporal Anomalies in Science Fiction and Fantasy Coachwhip Publications Anthology 7
2009 Cover Rip van Winkle, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow & Other Stories Wordsworth Editions Collection 7
June 2009 Cover The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle World Library Classics Collection
2010 Cover The Legend of Sleepy Hollow & Other Macabre Tales Fall River Press Collection |2
October 2010 Cover The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of Washington Irving: Volume 2 Leonaur Ltd Collection
February 2011 Cover Rip Van Winkle and Other Stories Puffin Collection |1
June 2011 Cover Great Short Stories by Great American Writers Coyote Canyon Press Collection 1
June 2012 Cover The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories Dover Publications Collection |2
August 2012 Cover The Oxford Book of American Short Stories Oxford University Press Anthology 15
April 2013 Cover Short Ghost and Horror Story Collection 20 LibriVox Anthology |17
June 2013 Cover Rip Van Winkle Rabbit Ears Entertainment Chapbook |1
July 2013 Cover The Dog Megapack: 25 Curly Canine Tales, Old and New Borgo Press / Wildside Press Anthology 269
August 2013 Cover The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories Sterling Children's Books Collection |2
October 2013 Cover Rip Van Winkle Calla Editions Chapbook
July 2014 Cover The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle Dover Publications Collection |1
January 2015 Cover Rip Van Winkle Lire Books Chapbook
February 2015 Cover Middle Unearthed: The Best Fantasy Short Stories 1800-1849 Bottletree Books Anthology 71
September 2016 Cover Swords & Steam Flame Tree Publishing Anthology 265
August 2017 Cover Rip Van Winkle Open Road Integrated Media Chapbook
May 2018 Cover The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle, & Other Gothic Tales: The Best Ghost Stories and Folk Horror of Washington Irving Oldstyle Tales Press Collection 119
October 2018 Cover Rip Van Winkle and Other Stories Dover Publications Collection 1
November 2018 Cover Future Past and Other Premonitions Living Time Anthology
July 2019 Cover The Big Book of Classic Fantasy: The Ultimate Collection Vintage Books Anthology 18
July 2019 Cover The Big Book of Classic Fantasy: The Ultimate Collection Vintage Books Anthology
December 2019 Rip Van Winkle Project Gutenberg Chapbook
March 2020 Cover Science Fiction of Antebellum America: An Anthology C. W. Gross Anthology 18
November 2020 Cover The Complete Harvard Classics Moon Classics Omnibus |110.275
February 2021 Rip Van Winkle Project Gutenberg Chapbook
2024 Cover Sleepy Hollow: Unheimliche Geschichten Anaconda Collection 72