CAPTAIN BLOOD

His Odyssey

Written by Rafael Sabatini. Published by Grosset & Dunlap New York. Copyright 1922; Photoplay edition. Although it has “Published August, 1922” on the copyright page and no other printings noted it is not the first edition which was published by Houghton Mifflin, 1922. It is a reprint and probably published in 1924 or 1925 as the photoplay pictures are taken from the Vitagraph movie starring J. Warren Kerrigan and Jean Paige which first appeared in September, 1924.

From Wikipedia:

Sabatini was a proponent of basing historical fiction as closely as possible on history. Although Blood is a fictional character, much of the historical background of the novel is loosely based on fact. A group of Monmouth rebels was indeed condemned to ten years' hard labor in Barbados, very similar to chattel slavery; and the shifting political alliances of the Glorious Revolution of 1688 are used in the novel as a plot device to allow Blood's return to respectability.

Sabatini based the first part of the story of Blood on Henry Pitman, a surgeon who tended the wounded Monmouth rebels and was sentenced to death by Judge Jeffreys, but whose sentence was commuted to penal transportation to Barbados where he escaped and was captured by pirates. Unlike the fictional Blood, Pitman did not join them, and eventually made his way back to England where he wrote a popular account of his ordeal. For Blood's life as a buccaneer, Sabatini used several models, including Henry Morgan and the work of Alexandre Exquemelin, for historical details.

DESCRIPTION:

356 pages + 6 pages of ads in back

7 5/8 x 5 1/4 inches

Photoplay Edition hardcover

CONDITION:

This hard-cover book is in good condition. There is no dust jacket. The blue cloth hardcover is soiled and worn at the corners and spine ends. The spine is a little cocked. There is a name on the front pastedown. The interior is clean with no other marks, underlining, tears or odor. The paper is somewhat toned with age. The hinges have been repaired. The binding is good and all pages and illustrations are present.

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