Slashed across the copper bowl of sunset, the jagged silhouette of tawny-shouldered mountains, fringed with areca-palms in black fretwork against the swift-fading glow, divided the tropic sky. Above, day yet lingered. Below, night's dim shroud, here and there spangled with glow-lights still or moving, had already folded earth in its obscurity. Down from that mountain crest the descending slopes fell through grove and plantation to the drowned paddy-fields and to the miasmatic swamps, brooded by settling mists like thin, ...
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Slashed across the copper bowl of sunset, the jagged silhouette of tawny-shouldered mountains, fringed with areca-palms in black fretwork against the swift-fading glow, divided the tropic sky. Above, day yet lingered. Below, night's dim shroud, here and there spangled with glow-lights still or moving, had already folded earth in its obscurity. Down from that mountain crest the descending slopes fell through grove and plantation to the drowned paddy-fields and to the miasmatic swamps, brooded by settling mists like thin, white breath of ghosts that in this Malay land all men gave faith to.
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Add this copy of Cursed to cart. $4.90, new condition, Sold by Basement Seller 101 rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Cincinnati, OH, UNITED STATES, published 2008 by Read Books.
Add this copy of Cursed to cart. $15.00, very good condition, Sold by Old Book Shop of Bordentown rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Bordentown, NJ, UNITED STATES, published 1919 by Small Maynard & Company.
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Very Good. Hardcover in green cloth lettered in gilt. First edition.349 pp. Color frontispiece illustration by Modest Stein. A tight, very good copy, touch of fraying bottom egde of front board, spine lettereing somewhat darkened. No jacket. A copy of the July 27, 1919 New York Times review is tipped onto the front pastedown. The story of a Malay curse and the New England clipper ship and its crew that are subject to it in the 1860s. The second part of the book tells what befalls the captain, now old and genttle and living in his New England coastal home.
Add this copy of Cursed to cart. $20.00, good condition, Sold by Between the Covers-Rare Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Gloucester City, NJ, UNITED STATES, published 1919 by Grosset & Dunlap(Small, Maynard & Company.
Add this copy of Cursed to cart. $21.95, good condition, Sold by Wonder Book - Member ABAA/ILAB rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Frederick, MD, UNITED STATES.
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Good. Good condition. No Dust Jacket (ship captains, voyages and travels, fiction) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.
Add this copy of Cursed to cart. $25.00, good condition, Sold by My Book Heaven rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Alameda, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1919 by Small Maynard & Co.
Add this copy of Cursed to cart. $27.36, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1919 by CreateSpace Independent Publis.