Tower or Throne? A Romance of Queen Elizabeth's Girlhood

258pp, colour frontispiece. Blue cloth-covered boards; black titles on front and spine; decorative border. 8vo. Sun-faded spine. Lightly bumped, rubbed and frayed spine ends; reader's crease; 3cm closed tear at joint top; fraying at joint bottom. Light bumping, rubbing and cloth worn through at board edges and corners. Text block edge just starting to fox and tan. Free endpapers tanned, starting to fox. Hinges cracked at front endpapers; binding quite loose. Gift inscription on front free endpaper. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. From author's note: "I follow my own untrodden ways and, by fancy led, try to trace the life of this young girl who was not always the princess or the queen...a simple maid, enjoying life or suffering its disappointments...with a strong desire to make you love one to whom history has not always been kind."