WILLIAMSON, THAMES [ THOMAS ROSS WILLIAMSON] — The Gladiator

Garden City, NY. Permabooks Doubelday. 1953, First Pbk.Ed. Pbk. Book, The Gladiator is a lusty panorama of the splendor and sensuality of ancient Rome. Here is the bestial savagery and brutal blood-lust of the arena . the decadence and corrupt splendor of the world's most notorious court. And here is a love as powerful and unique as the people who lived it--Faljan, the hero of one hundred mortal combats, and Lydia, the dancing girl--reckless, exotic and willful. 382p.Vintage copy, text neat and complete but title page missing. Good.