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BLACK DOME PRESS CORP
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RR 1, Box 422 Hensonville, NY 12439 Tel: 518 734-6357 Fax: 518 734-5802

Black Dome Press publishes books on the history, art & folklore of New York's Hudson Valley and Catskill Mountains.

Highlighted titles link to cover pictures and broader descriptions than below.

Terms to retailers: 40% discount, plus shipping (UPS @ cost), net 30 days. No minimum purchase required for discount. Returns in original condition accepted for credit or refund.

TO ORDER: Print out this form and mail or fax it to the above address - or call Debbi Allen at the # above

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• PRINTER'S DEVIL TO PUBLISHER Adolph S. Ochs of The New York Times
  Doris Faber with an Introduction by Arthur Ochs Sulzberger. 192 pp Paper, $12.95 ISBN: 1-883789-09-5
• A VISIBLE HERITAGE Columbia County, New York: A History in Art and Architecture
  Ruth Piwonka and Roderic H. Blackburn. 160 pp, 157 illustrations Paper, 9x10, $24.95 ISBN: 1-883789-08-7 Cloth $35.95 ISBN 1-883789-109
• THE UNBROKEN THREAD A History of Quiltmaking in the Catskills
  Steve Hoare with an introduction by Carter Houck. 250 pp, 65 photographs - Paper, ISBN: 1-883789-07-9 $21.95
• PORTRAITS OF PRIDE The Mountaintop Remembers
  Richard Winter. 208 pp, 61 photographs - Paper, $19.95 ISBN: 1-883789-06-0
  " . . . the last remaining old-timers take a look at the present day and compare it with the world they knew." --Bedrich Grunzweig, New York's International Center of Photography.
• DIAMOND STREET The Story of the Little Town with the Big Red Light District
  Bruce Edward Hall. 222 pp, 43 illustrations - Paper, $13.95 ISBN: 1-883789-01-X
  " . . . a lively and engaging local history...Essential for regional collections and an entertaining addition to social history collections." --Library Journal
• THE GREENE COUNTY CATSKILLS A History
  Field Horne with an introduction by Mario Cuomo. 236 pp, 121 illustrations Paper, $25.95 ISBN: 1-883789-03-6; Cloth, $35.95 ISBN: 1-883789-02-8
  " . . . a font of knowledge and lively chronicler of folklore. The enchanting full-color cover--with Rip asleep on an old postcard of famous Catskill sites--is worth the price of the book."--Albany Times Union
• THE CATSKILL MOUNTAIN HOUSE America's Grandest Hotel
  Roland Van Zandt. 416 pp, 94 illustrations, 9 maps Paper, $19.95 ISBN: 0-9628523-6-8; Cloth, $31.95 ISBN: 0-9628523-0-9
  " . . . follows the great days of the famous hostelry with pride and the days of its decay with heartbreak."--The New York Times
• THE HUCKLEBERRY PICKERS A Raucous History of the Shawangunk Mountains
  Marc B. Fried. 164 pp, maps & illustrations Paper, $14.95 ISBN: 1-883789-04-4
  " . . . this is an invaluable record: Fried has recorded the colorful storytelling of generations of berrypickers before they vanish forever from the face of the Shawangunk earth."--H.R. Stoneback, Dir., Carl Carmer Center for Catskill Mtn., and Hudson Valley Studies
• BARE TREES Zadock Pratt, Master Tanner, & The Story of What Happened to the Catskill Mountain Forests
  Patricia E. Millen. 112 pp, illustrations Paper, $11.95 ISBN: 1-883789-05-2
  Those endless forests of hemlock are not to be found today, felled by the enterprise of Pratt and others in what was a complex international operation and one of the most important industries in antebellum America.
• BIG HOLLOW A Mountaintop History: Maplecrest, Windham, New York
  Elwood Hitchcock. 128 pp, 25 illustrations, Paper, $14.95 ISBN: 0-9628523-7-6
  The story of the first settlers who came by ox-sled to a lonely, isolated, uninhabited mountain "hollow" of virgin timberland in the winter of 1795, and the generations who followed.
• A CATSKILLS BOYHOOD My Life Along the Hudson
  Philip H. Dubois. 120 pp, illustrations, Paper, $12.95 ISBN: 0-9628523-4-1
  "An octogenarian's memories of his turn-of-the-century childhood growing up in the old Dutch village of Catskill. The book is filled with fascinating tidbits of life in the early century."-- Daily Freeman.
• MOUNTAINTOP & VALLEY Greene County Folk Arts Today
  Field Horne. 48 pp, 33 photographs, Paper (8x11), $10.00 ISBN: 0-9628523-1-7
  48 folk artists are profiled and their work displayed in this Heritage Award-winning book. This wonderful book highlights contemporary traditional arts and artists--Albany Institute of History and Art.
• UNDER THREE FLAGS A Hudson River History: Coxsackie, Earlton & Climax Settlements
  Raymond Beecher. 103 pp, 21 illustrations, Paper, $12.95 ISBN: 0-9628523-2-5
  " . . . 300 years of change, from frontier outpost & gateway to the West, to bucolic Albany suburb. A new, comprehensive history of Greene County's river towns from pioneer days to modern times."-- Albany Times Union
• KAATERSKILL From the Catskill Mountain House to the Hudson River School
  The Mountain Top Historical Society. 120 pp, 33 illustrations, Paper, $13.95 ISBN: 0-9628523-8-4
  "The home and haunt of America's Romantic-era landscape painters, the grand hotels, and the golden age of railroads. For those interested in the Catskills, or in mountains, or in history, or in fascinating places."-- Adirondack Mountain Club
• THE MILL on the Roeliff Jansen Kill
  the Roeliff Jansen Historical Society. 144 pp, 36 photographs, 2 maps, Paper, $15.00 ISBN: 0-9628523-9-2
  "Built in 1743 by the Livingstons, the Mill has survived more than 250 years of political and economic change. The story of New York State's oldest operating mill is also the story of the Hudson Valley." -- The Northern Centinel
• THE OLD EAGLE-NESTER The Lost Legends of the Catskills
  Doris West Brooks. 128 pp, original illustrations, Paper, $13.95 ISBN: 0-9628523-5-X
  "Doris West Brooks is part of the great tradition of New York State ghost story collectors. She breathes into her telling of the tales a personal feeling that is inescapable." -- David Willis McCullough, author of the Ziza Todd mysteries.
  "This is wonderful stuff, some of it funny, some of it frightening, all of it entertaining." -- Dutchess Magazine
• THROUGH A WOMAN'S EYE Pioneering Photographers in Rural Upstate
  Diane Galusha. 200 pp, 61 full-page photographs, Paper, $19.95 ISBN: 1-883789- 00-1
  "Turn-of-the-century rural New York as seen through the eyes of three Catskill Mountain farmers' daughters. The rediscovery of a lost chapter in the history of photography." -- Daily Gazette

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