GOUDGE, ELIZABETH — The Child from the Sea

New York: Coward-McCann, Inc, 1970. BCE. Hardcover. Book club edition. Elizabeth Goudge's ".colorful and romantic historical novel." is the story ".of Lucy Walter, the proud and beautiful secret wife of Charles II." Emerging from her childhood in Wales in the 17th century, Lucy marries the king, then the two become estranged and she eventually dies in Paris at the age of twenty-eight. --- In full black leatherette-look paper-covered boards with spine titling in white. Volume lacks the dust jacket. --- A tightly-bound, clean copy though with prior owner's signature to front free endpaper which has been covered with heavy black marker, minor dampstains to rear endpapers and a couple of small tears at head of spine.; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; x, 598 pages. Good+ with no dust jacket .