The Shadow Mary White Ovington 1920 Harcourt Brace and Howe The Shadow Mary White Ovington New York: Harcourt, Brace and Howe 1920 352 pages The front hinge is cracked, the binding has breaks but all pages are present and attached. The pages are lightly tanned and the first few pages have scattered brown age spots and a name is written in front. The cover is scuffed and edge worn. Acceptable. Hardcover. Chapter 1: In the far south of the United States, where through the winter months the sun holds in warmth the blue encircling sky, opening the buds of the roses in December, where palmetto and white sand meet deep green swamp and heavily scented magnolia, there flows a great river. From its narrow source it deepens and widens until toward the end of its course it becomes an estuary, and for many miles dwellers on one side can dimly distinguish the contour of the opposite shore. The dwellers, as it happens, are not many, and the little boat that makes it daily trip to and from the busy city at the river's mouth is not overburdened with freight or passengers. It zigzags from shore to shore, stopping at one port for timber, at another to land an itinerant preacher, at a third to receive a fragrant load of oranges or grapefruit destined for a market in the north. (#0000866)