GRANT, MICHAEL — The Twelve Caesars

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1975. First US Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0684144026. A first US printing of Michael Grant's collection of short biographies of ".Julius Caesar and the eleven Roman emperors who followed him." With a section of plates bearing black & white photos of surviving busts and coins dating to the time of these men, as well as four maps. The prolific author has been described as ".one of the world's greatest writers on ancient history." --- In full black cloth-covered boards with gilt-stamped spine titling; orange topstain. Volume lacks the dust jacket. --- With prior owner's circular embossed stamp to front free endpaper and mild soiling to cloth, else a clean, tightly-bound, unmarked copy.; Tall Octavo - 9 to 10 in. tall; xii, 282 pages. Very Good with no dust jacket .