Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v [vi-viii] [1] 2-310 [311-312: ads], original sage green cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black. First edition. An obscure doppelganger fantasy from an author better known for his mysteries. The protagonist is a middle class man of a type so dear to inter-war English novelists, his complacent life like a small unarmed country just begging for an invasion by the extraordinary. One stormy night, after a stressful day at the brokerage and a false accusation of philandering, Jeremy Dilkes sees the mirror in his study explode and from it emerge his double. Comic and near-tragic complications ensue. The double represents Dilke's id, his unrestrained animal spirits, the opposite of Jeremy's usual cautious milquetoast self. Jeremy tries for a while to coexist with this double but events push him to a desperate solution. The novel, finally, frustrates our hopes that it will go off into any one of the truly adventurous directions it keeps verging on. It meanders from breezy bedroom farce to occult thriller to murder mystery to highbrow academic wit (including the conceit that Garrett is writing a biography, not a novel), without synthesizing these ingredients or dedicating itself consistently and deeply to just one tone. Its psychological underpinnings seem a bit creaky today. Nevertheless, this is a sophisticated and not inconsiderable effort that deserves to be better known. A worthy addition to the literature of split personality and doppelgangers that has crystallized around Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Bleiler (1978), p. 80. Reginald 05813. Spine panel faded and lightly foxed, early gift inscription on front free endpaper, a very good copy. (#75370).

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THE MAN IN THE MIRROR: A BIOGRAPHICAL REFLECTION

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John Lane The Bodley Head Limited, London

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1931

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