Memoirs of a Princess: the Reminiscences of Princess Marie von Thurn und Taxisby Princess Marie von Thurn und Taxis. Translated by Nora Wydenbruck. The Hogarth Press, 1959. Hardback, 224 pp. Helpful Index at the end. Blue cloth boards, silver lettering on the spine. One stain on front cover; one irritatingly redundant note scribbled in blue biro on the page in between the titlepage and the List of Contents. Otherwise a very clean copy. £24.99 Condition: Fair With a handle as lengthy as the authors on its title page (though one hopes that for a princessvon Thurn und Taxishailing a cab would never have been much of a problem), this is a book that might well inspire the casual reader to yawn and mutter,Not another boring blue blood nattering on about all the famous people she once met. But the casual reader would be wrong. This is a) highly readable and very entertaining, and b) the famous person with whom the author was closely connected was none other than the great German