DEATH BY FAME: A Life of Elisabeth, Empress of Austria.
Pp. xiv+224, coloured frontispiece portrait, 16 black & white plates, full page genealogical chart, select bibliography, index; med. 8vo; navy boards, spine lettered in silver; dust wrapper, edges a trifle creased; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown, edges of leaves slightly foxed; Constable & Company Limited, London, 1998. First edition. *Elizabeth of Austria was murdered by a stalker. 'She went on starvation diets and suffered from anorexia, obsessed by the Greek ideal of physical perfection. She was married too young to the heir of the Austrian Empire. After giving him three children early, including the son who committed suicide at Mayerling, she found life at Court less and less tolerable' [wrapper blurb]. Item #176890
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