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Augustus: The Memoirs of the Emperor.

MASSIE, Allan (born 1938).

London: The Bodley Head, 1986. [Historical Fiction] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.x; 339 [3]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to flyleaf. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the photographic dust-jacket. A crisp, unread copy, showing just a touch of handling and a little sunning to jacket spine. Near fine. An unashamed pastiche of Graves' classic Roman confessional, 'I, Claudius' (1934). Item #62062

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