Deutsche Buch-Gemeinschaft, Berlin und Hamburg, 1950.  Hard cover, 342 pages.  Blue boards with black leather spine; blue and gold lettering with gold symbol on front, gold lettering and ribbons on spine.  Boards show edge, cover and spine end wear, some rubs and marks, some discolouration; binding sound with head and tail bands.  Discoloured ribbon marker bound in; pages tanned, more so at top margin.  Some dings to top page block resulting in creasing to top margins of some pages; touch of foxing on outer page block.  Historical novel of Roman Emperor Claudius written in autobiographical form written in German language.