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The most elusive royal genealogical book ever published?

Royal Genealogies - A Legitimist's Handbook by Caroline Gordon-Duff, published in either January or February 2014. ISBN 10: 097530569 ISBN13: 978-097530561 From that information it should be easy to find out more about such a recent book (relatively speaking), to find out enough to decide whether or not it is worth buying, to then also decide what would be a fair price for the book, and to then find and buy a reasonably priced copy of the book, for whatever personal definition of 'reasonably priced' we may wish to apply. Right? Wrong! There seems to be virtually nothing online about the book, which is crazy for a book published only 10 years ago, particularly one about royal genealogy, a subject that has loads of websites and a few forums online devoted to it and a community who lap up new books on the subject. Surely somebody at the time would have mentioned somewhere online that the book was about to come out, or had actually come out, or would have reviewed it after rece...