Frontispiece by Jeff Jones. Maroon cloth lettered in gilt, color pictorial jacket. First Edition. Written by Burroughs between April and September in 1941, this historical novel is set in the time of the Roman Empire. It was not published in any form before this book edition. Only 2000 copies were printed, and a number of those were destroyed in a fire in the Burroughs warehouse. Zeuschner 186.