The Man in the Mirror: A Biographical Reflection
- Hardcover
- New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1931
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1931. First American edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 307pp. Duodecimo [19 cm] Blue cloth over boards, with the title stamped in gilt on the backstrip and front board. The spine is faded, and the endpapers are glue-stained. Else, the pages are tanned, but very clean. Pieces of a dust jacket have been mounted to a sheet of paper fashioned into a dust wrapper. From the collection of Berkeley book collector and letterpress printer John Ruyle. Bleiler Checklist, p. 80 (London edition). From the publisher-
"This ingenious story concerns itself with the exciting adventures of a man-in-the-street. Its complications are based upon the natural faults and limitations, the aspirations and inhibitions of a typical average man. Jeremy Dilke, a London broker, who lived monotonously with his wife and daughter, was pacing his library during a storm one night, when he stopped to gaze at himself in the mirror. 'I wonder,' he said in disgust, addressing himself to his image, 'What you look like to other people.' At that moment the room became full of living flame, the skies reverberated with thunder. As the flame cleared away, the room appeared to have not been damaged. But there was one change. Jeremy's reflection in the mirror had stepped outside.
"This ingenious story concerns itself with the exciting adventures of a man-in-the-street. Its complications are based upon the natural faults and limitations, the aspirations and inhibitions of a typical average man. Jeremy Dilke, a London broker, who lived monotonously with his wife and daughter, was pacing his library during a storm one night, when he stopped to gaze at himself in the mirror. 'I wonder,' he said in disgust, addressing himself to his image, 'What you look like to other people.' At that moment the room became full of living flame, the skies reverberated with thunder. As the flame cleared away, the room appeared to have not been damaged. But there was one change. Jeremy's reflection in the mirror had stepped outside.