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Bardelys the Magnificent

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Illustrator George Giguere (?-?)

PhotoPlay Edition 1926 MGM Film (John Gilbert & Eleanor Boardman)

 

Bardelys the Magnificent

As Languedoc enters her year of rebellion, the Sieur Marcel de St. Pol has other things on his mind. For amid the glorious battles and brutal insurrections, Marcel a.k.a. the Marquis of Bardelys, has his heart set on a fair lady.

 

The hero, Sieur Marcel, a handsome, reckless favorite of the French monarch Louis XIII, wagers his estate with a rival for the king's favor that he can win a beautiful heiress in the province of Languedoc whom his opponent has courted in vain.  Yet will she succumb to the Marquis' strange wooing?

 

How he goes to Languedoc and is promptly snared in the web of rebellion that has been woven against the king, how he is wounded in battle and seeks shelter in the castle of the girl's father, who welcomes him as one of the rebels, how he woos the girl, overcomes his rival, and escapes from a charge of treason, make one of the most stirring and swiftly moving stories of love, intrigue and adventure that Sabatini has ever written.

 

Bardelys the Magnificent - Editions & Formats

 

US First Edition

Houghton-Mifflin - [1924]

Note: preceded by the UK 1st Edition published by Eveleigh Nash in 1906.

 

Binding:

Black Cloth Binding with Orange Lettering on front and spine.

 

Pages:

286 numbered pages.

 

Dustjacket:

FF:  Summary [$2.00]

RF:  "Rafael Sabatini The Modern Dumas" [8]

RP:  New Fiction [11]: "Mistress Wilding" to "Augustus Carp, Esq."

 

Rear Ads:

None

 

 

US Reprint Editions

Grosset & Dunlap - [1925]

 

Binding:

Light Blue Cloth Binding with Navy Blue Lettering on front and spine.

 

Pages:

286 numbered pages.

 

Dustjacket:

FF:  Summary

RF:  G&D Announcement

RP:  "Fascinating Novels of Rafael Sabatini" [3]

 -- Photo & Summary of The Sea Hawk, Scaramouche & Captain Blood.

 

Rear Ads:

(1) "Peter B. Kyne's Novels" [7];

(2) "Jackson Gregory's Novels" [9]

(3) "Emerson Hough's Novels" [16]

(4) "George W. Ogden's Western Novels" [7]

(5) "Charles Alden Seltzer's Western Novels" [12]

(6) "Booth Tarkington's Novels" [6]

(7) "Stories of Rare Charm by Gene Stratton Porter" [10]

(8) "Zane Grey's Novels" [16 + 6]

(9) "Ethel M. Dell's Novels" [8]

 

 

 

Grosset & Dunlap - PhotoPlay Edition - [1926]

1926 MGM Film (starring John Gilbert & Eleanor Boardman)

 

Binding:

Light Blue Cloth Binding with Navy Blue Lettering on front and spine.

 

Pages:

286 numbered pages.

Eight (8) Movie Stills.

 

Dustjacket:

FF:  Summary

RF:  G&D Announcement

RP:  "Fascinating Novels of Rafael Sabatini" [3]

 -- Photo & Summary of The Sea Hawk, Scaramouche & Captain Blood.

 

Rear Ads:

(1) "Zane Grey's Novels" [19 + 6]

(2) "James Oliver Curwood's Novels" [18]

(3) "Peter B. Kyne's Novels" [10];

(4) "Booth Tarkington's Novels" [15]

(5) "Emerson Hough's Novels" [16]

(6) "The Novels of Temple Bailey" [8]

(7) "Margaret Pedler's Novels" [8]

(8) "Ruby M. Ayre's Novels" [13]

(9) "Detective Stories by J.S. Fletcher" [16]