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'My Past' by Countess Marie Larisch. (London: Eveleigh Nash. 1913.)
She was the go-between in the Mayerling affair, when the Crown Prince of Austria committed suicide after murdering his mistress. It was also a source for T S Eliot's 'The Waste Land' (which was why I bought it in 1976. It cost 75p). My copy has a sticker marked 'Ex libris Eugène, Vicomte di Villa.'
I've also got any number of books on obscure forms of needlework (Dresden embroidery, The ex-queen of Rumania's book of tatting, etc.)
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