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A first UK edition hardback with a full 1 to 10 number sequence indicating a first printing. In nice condition for age. Small bump to bottom edge of front board. The dust jacket is complete, still shows the price but is showing some slight signs of wear to extremities.
SYNOPSIS: “Rome may have already been in decline, but not so the seventy-year-old Galen of Pergamos, sage and scientist, wily old bird and personal physician to emperors. We meet the great Galen brooding over a murder – the murder of his protege, Commodus Aurelius, son of Marcus. Being extremely advanced for the second century in the field of forensic science, Galen has paid a visit to the palace body-washer and is convinced that the new Emperor Severus might have had a hand in events…”
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