The Sea-Hawk [Seahawk]

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company / The Riverside Press, 1923. Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 9x6x1. Brett, Harold. 1923 first printing of the second American edition of the work first published in the UK in 1915, and in the same year in the US by J.B. Lippincott (Knight & Darley A.15.c.). The personal copy of Henry Strong Durand, with his name ink on front endpaper. Durand practiced men in Rochester, New York, and was friends with George Eastman - Durand Eastman Park, which lies on land they purchased and donated for that purpose, is named after them. Spine slightly faded. x, 366 pp. 8vo. Color frontispiece by Harold Brett. "A masterpiece of historical fiction and a ferociously gripping adventure tale. Oliver Tressilian, a Cornish gentleman who helped defeat the Spanish Armada, is betrayed by his half-brother, throwing him into circumstances where he becomes a Barbary pirate and a follower of Islam." CONTENTS: Note; Part One - Sir Oliver Tressilian - The Huckster; Rosamund; The Forge; The Intervener; The Buckler; Jasper Leigh; Trepanned; The Spaniard; Part Two Sakr-El-Bahr - The Captive; The Renegade; Homeward Bound; The Raid; The Lion of the Faith; The Convert; Marzak-Ben-Asad; Mother and Son; Competitors; The Slave-Market; The Truth; The Subtlety of Fenzileh; In the Sight of Allah; The Sign; The Voyage; The Pannier; The Dupe; Sheik Mat; The Mutineers; The Messenger; Moriturus; The Surrender; The Heathen Creed; The Judges; The Advocate; The Judgment.