Description
Walking News, Inc., Published 1982. Wraps, 58 pp.; 23 cm; reissue of the 1909 first edition originally published by The Palisade Press, Edgewater, NJ; illustrated with black-and-white photographs (most by John P. Fritts), historical diagrams, a frontispiece reproduction of Van Dearing Perrine's painting "The Palisades" owned by the White House, and a large fold-out altitude and location map of the Palisades Region from Bergen Point to Piermont (drawn by F. F. Mons), housed in an envelope affixed to the inside back cover.
Condition & notes
In Very Good condition. Red illustrated paper covers (front cover with an Art Nouveau decorative border framing a brown vignette of a sailboat passing beneath the Palisades cliffs) show light bumping increasing toward the edges and mild surface wear. Back cover has price sticker residue and mild toning. Binding is tight, pages clean and unmarked. The fold-out map is present in its original envelope pocket on the inside back cover.A historical, geological, and topographical guide to the Palisades of the Hudson, prepared by Arthur C. Mack with technical assistance from Charles P. Berkey of Columbia (geology), Edward Hagaman Hall and J. Du Pratt White of the American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society, and Van Dearing Perrine, "the Painter of the Palisades." Covers the geology of the trap rock ridge, the Lenape and Tappan Indians, Henry Hudson's 1609 voyage, the Burr-Hamilton duel, the Revolutionary War forts (Lee and Washington), Sneden's Landing and Mollie Sneden the ferrywoman, the old roads of the Palisades, and the early twentieth-century preservation efforts that established the Palisades Interstate Park. Concludes with Van Dearing Perrine's essay "The Palisades - An Appreciation."Contents (alphabetical index): Alpine; Altitude of the Palisades; Area of the Palisades Interstate Park; Bergen, Ancient Town of; Birds of the Palisades; Block House Point; Burdett's Ferry; Burr-Hamilton Duel; Castle Point; Closter Landing; Cornwallis' Headquarters; Commissioners Palisades Interstate Park; Chevaux-de-Frise; Desecration of the Palisades; Englewood; Englewood Cliffs; Englewood Creek; Elysian Fields; Fort Lee, Historic Old; Fort Washington, Battle of; Flowers of the Palisades; Ferry Routes; Geology of the Palisades; Gifts to the Palisades Reservation; Half-Moon; History; Hudson, Henry; Henry Hudson Drive; Huyler's Landing; Hoboken; Indians of the Palisades; Jeffrey's Hook; Lee, Gen. Charles; Lee, Fort; Map of Sneden's Landing; Map of the Forts; Path Through Palisades Interstate Park; Park, Palisades Interstate; Palisades, Town of; Police Patrol; Roads of the Palisades; Saving the Palisades; Sneden's Landing; Sneden, Mollie; Springs; Trees of the Palisades; Undercliff Settlement; Washington, Fort; Washington, Gen. George; Washington, Lady Martha; Washington, Battle of Fort; Weehawken; Women's Work for the Palisades.
