eMoviePoster.comAuction History Result 1m461 CAPTAIN BLOOD hardcover book '22 Rafael Sabatini's novel with scenes from the movie! Date Sold 10/9/2016Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. A Vintage Hardcover Book (measures 5" x 7 1/2" [13 x 19 cm]; 369 pages) (Learn More) Captain Blood, the 1924 David Smith silent pirate swashbuckling romantic action adventure melodrama ("The greatest love story ever told"; based on the novel by Rafael Sabatini) starring J. Warren Kerrigan (in the title role as Captain Peter Blood), Jean Paige, Charlotte Merriam, James Morrison, and Allan Forrest. Note that this movie was remade in 1935 and Errol Flynn played the lead role, and it was a huge success. That caused this earlier silent version to be completely forgotten by everyone except for film buffs. Movie paper from this 1924 version is virtually non-existent! We have never sold any first release U.S. poster or lobby card (we did have a glass slide and a few stills), and we have never had any first release non-U.S. posters, except for a French poster! Unfortunately, only 30 minutes of the film still exists. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that this movie edition has images from the movie on the inside front and back covers, but NOT scattered through the book, as was often done. We did not picture those images. Note that this is the first Grosset & Dunlap photoplay edition from 1923 (one of a collection of such books we are auctioning in this set of auctions). Here are some more details about these books: Grosset & Dunlap was a publisher that made a deal with all the studios in the 1910s to publish "movie edition" hardcovers of novels that were currently adapted into movies (there were also some by other publishers, but Grosset & Dunlap printed the lion's share of these). They would re-publish the original novel as the movie came out (or soon after), and they would put a dust jacket on the book that showed the stars of the movie, and they would include several pages of images from the movie scattered in the book. These books were incredibly popular in the 1920s and 1930s. The example of this book offered here does not have its dust jacket. Note that we have pictured the front cover, the title page, and the interior page that shows the publishing information, and one or more interior 2-page spreads. Condition: good to very good. Learn More about condition grades
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