Garden City: Doubleday & Co., 1960. Stated First Edition. Near FIne/Very Good+. Very clean black cloth boards with bright gold letteirng on spine. No bumping or fraying. Hint of lightest surface wear to spine corners. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean and bright. Clean endpapers; no names, writing or marks. 380 pgs. Clean bright dustjacket is not price clipped, unfaded, has tiny chip at top spine corner edge, one 1/2" closed edge tear at top rear panel edge, slight wear to corners. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. The hero of this powerful and imaginative novel is Heracles, who in Roman myth was Hercules--born in the year of the Trojan War, fated to become the greatest figure of the heroic age when Greece was ruled by scores of jealous kings. 8vo. Fiction.