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The Mirror
by Marlys Millhiser
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/Very Good+
- ISBN 10
- 0399121994
- ISBN 13
- 9780399121999
- Seller
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Walnut Creek, California, United States
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About This Item
Very nice copy of the harder to find hardback version from 1979 (1997 saw a softback reprint version). The dust jacket has no tears; very minor shelf wear. Hardback is firm and tightly bound. A date is written on inner page. That this horror classic deserved a second printing some twenty years after its first is testimony to its timelessness. In the vein of Thomas Tyron's The Other, this hardback is a nice addition to any high-brow horror collection!
Synopsis
A young woman on the eve of her wedding sees her life turn into a nightmare of supernatural horror in which she is forced to break the most elemental of taboos. The mirror is a full-length looking glass in a grotesque bronze frame of talonlike fingers, brought from China to SanFrancisco in the late 1800's, and it's evil. When Shay gazes into The Mirror's depths on the eve of her wedding, she is transported back in time, awakening in the same house, but in another body, that of her grandmother, Brandy. And the independent, tempestuous Brandy is transported as well-from 75 years in the past into the present body deserted by her granddaughter, Shay. Plunged into a primitive, nineteenth century mining camp, condemned to a living hell of knowing the future and being forced to endure it unalterably, Shay finds herself marrying her own grandfather, giving birth to her own mother, and astonishing everyone by predicting the future-a future which is all too cruelly her own family past. As Shay struggles through the trials of her grandmother's life, Brandy awakens to the extraordinary destiny that now awaits her and discovers, in a stunning, eerie climax, that she can neither break nor defy the ancient, supernatural spell of The Mirror.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Wrodents
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7777783
- Title
- The Mirror
- Author
- Marlys Millhiser
- Format/Binding
- Tight, glue binding
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0399121994
- ISBN 13
- 9780399121999
- Publisher
- Putnam Pub Group (t)
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1978
- Pages
- 383
- Size
- 5.75 x 8.5 in..
- Keywords
- Mirror, Millhiser, Other,
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Wrodents
Biblio member since 2024
Walnut Creek, California
About Wrodents
Wrodents houses a private book collection of artist Lance Borde (Gumby Comics, Karolyov, Primal Force) and is the culmination of over forty years of collecting. Most books have been stored flat avoiding shelf wear. Wrodents also sells comic books at various comic book conventions in California.
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