Parse the whole PDF, ignoring the first page of each chapter:
Code:
import fitz
doc = fitz.open("original.pdf")
rect = fitz.Rect(0,0,424,50)
exclude = [range(1, 14), 17,24,97,155,186,232,258,297,322,343,404]
for index in range(1,doc.page_count+1):
if index not in exclude:
page = doc[index]
page.add_redact_annot(rect)
page.apply_redactions()
doc.save("redacted.pdf")