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DUGGAN, Aflred.

Item Number: 126443

New York: Pantheon Books, 1960.

First edition of Duggan’s absorbing novel documenting the rise and fall of Ancient Roman emperor Elagabalus. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Johannes Troyer. Ownership inscription.

Here, with his customary mastery and fluent style, Alfred Duggan tells the story of the accession and reign of the youthful third century Emperor Elagabalus, as told through the eyes of his faithful bodyguard and tutor of the military arts, Duratius.