8vo. Folding table at rear. (Light spotting to endpapers.) Original black cloth, gilt-lettered spine (some pale spotting or discoloration to covers); dust jacket priced "8/- net" (some spotting or toning, few tiny short tears along spine ends). Provenance: H.B. Moorhead (ownership signature on front flyleaf.

FIRST EDITION of Graves's best-known book, an autobiography of Tiberius Claudius that is "still an acknowledged masterpiece and a model for historical fiction" (Mantel, "Best Books... Chosen by Hilary Mantel", The Week, 8 January 2015). Higginson A42a.