Penguin, Middlesex, 1977, reprint.  ISBN 0-14-000318-5.  MMPB, 399 pages.  Illustrated wraps show edge and cover wear, reading creases and cover creases, short tear at upper front spine edge; ink stain at upper front corner.  Binding sound.  Interior clean and unmarked with tanned pages; small ink spot at upper fore-edge corner of page block.  ‘… magnificent reconstruction of the grandeur and folly and vileness of Imperial Rome.  Into the racy “autobiography” of Clau-Clau-Claudius, the pitiful stammerer who was destined to become Emperor in spite of himself, Graves packs the everlasting intrigues, the depravity, the bloody purges and mounting cruelty of the reigns of Augustus and Tiberius, soon to culminate in the deified insanity of Caligula. … ranks among the best historical novels of this century.’ (from rear wrap)