There is a minute amount of pink paper left on the front paste down, which would have once been either an award sticker or promotionl one. The fore-edge is foxed, else an immaculate second hand copy. Full title: 'The True Story of My Life: An Autobiography By Alice M. Diehl Novelist - Writer - Musician.With a Photogravure Portrait' "Alice Diehl (25 February 1844 - 13 June 1912) was an English musician and novelist. She changed in 1872 from being a concert pianist into being a writer - of music reviews, some 50 novels and several other books......Alice Diehl first performed publicly on the piano in Paris in 1861. In 1863 she married the violinist and song composer Louis Diehle (c. 1837 - 1910), by whom she had six children. Her playing was praised by Berlioz and she continued to perform in London until 1872......Of interest for the light they shed on musical life and other aspects of London are her two autobiographical volumes: Musical Memories (1897) and The True Story of My Life (1908). The second was also published in New York and appeared in the same year as her Life of Beethoven.For The Story of Philosophy (1881) she used the pseudonym Aston Leigh" (Wikipedia)