Julius Caesar

New York: Random House, 1959. First printing (stated). Small quarto in white color-illus jacket; 182 pages: illustrations; 22 cm; illlustrations to endpapers; bibliographical references and index. Near fine with neat personal owner name; in an about near fine(-), possibly price-clipped jacket. Please see photos. Jacket now housed in archival mylar sleeve. in near fine dust-jacket. Hardcover.

World Landmark Books W-43. Contents: pt. 1 -- Caesar and the Pirates -- In Those Days Rome Was Like This ... -- Family Background -- The Youth of Caesar -- Out in the East -- How Rome Was Ruled, the Senate and the People -- The Political Arena -- Caesar Struggles to Get Ahead -- Pompey, Crassus, and the Triumvirate -- pt. 2 -- Caesar Conquers Gaul -- He Has Interest in Rome, Too, While Fighting a Thousand Miles Away -- The Last Act in Gaul -- The Rubicon -- pt. 3 -- The Civil War -- Cleopatra, and After -- Battles in Africa and Spain -- Back in Rome -- The Ides of March -- Aftermath. A biography of Caesar, scholar and leader, whom historians described as the first modern man. / Heads of state -- Rome -- Biography -- Juvenile literature. World History.