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1	Void more books like this by Georges Perec, Gilbert Adair add to wishlist In Perec's extraordinary tour de force--written entirely without the use of the letter "e"--a group of people die or are otherwise eliminated as a result of their inability to "name the unnameable," i.e. to use the letter "e." This novel is a classic text of the Oulipo, the French literary movement that produces works of art using formal ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.99! \| first editions
2	Holy Innocents by Gilbert Adair add to wishlist In May 1968, a brother and sister, young, clever and aristocratic, and incestuously involved, become friends with an American who is studying film in Paris. When their parents go on vacation, they invite the American to stay with them in their flat, where they start to play games. see all copies from $39.88! first editions
3	Movies more books like this by Various, Gilbert Adair (Editor) add to wishlist From the Luminere Brothers' first public film screening at the end of the 19th century to the technical wizardry of the present day, the cinema has both recorded and created our history. This text is an anthology of the century of the moving image. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $76.08! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Kubrick: The Definitive Edition more books like this by Michel Ciment, Gilbert Adair (Translator), Robert Bononno (Translator) add to wishlist Film historian Ciment's book, originally published in France in 1980, is based on extensive interviews with the legendary director. After the France edition appeared, Kubrick expanded a number of his responses which were then incorporated into subsequent editions. The interviews explore everything from the technical aspects of the films to Kubrick ... see all copies from $9.95! new only from $171.54! \| first editions
5	The Real Tadzio: Thomas Mann's Death in Venice and the Boy Who Inspired It more books like this by Gilbert Adair add to wishlist Beginning with Thomas Mann's infatuation with Wladyslaw Moes, a Polish boy he met in Venice, Gilbert Adair goes on to detail Mann's use of Moes (and the fantasy he represented) in his creation of young Tadzio in his 1912 novel DEATH IN VENICE. He also explores Moes's subsequent adult life as an aristocrat in a changed world. see all copies from $2.05! new only from $31.32!
6	A closed book more books like this by Gilbert Adair add to wishlist An isolated cottage deep in the heart of the Cotswolds. A writer's den, as dusty, gloomy and full of exotic objets d'art as the cell of a medieval monk. This is an "unsettling, claustrophobic" novel begging the reader to ask many, many questions. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.99! \| first editions
7	A Fantasy of Dr Ox more books like this by Jules Verne, Dr. Andrew Brown, Jr., LLB (Translator), Gilbert Adair (Foreword by) add to wishlist Writing with a philosophical eye worthy of the eighteenth century, and the subtle irony of Voltaire, Verne tells the tale of Dr Ox - one of his most inspired, and insane, visionaries. Something very strange is in the air of the harmonious town of Quiquendone. Unknown to the inhabitants, the mad genius Dr Ox has unleashed a veil of oxy-hydric gas ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.99! \| SVS
8	Love and Death on Long Island more books like this by Gilbert Adair add to wishlist A wealthy widower in his fifties, the author of 4 novels, Giles d'Ath seems to be everyone's idea of England's elder statesman of letters. But one afternoon a sequence of unrelated events contrives to destroy forever the complacency of his existence. The author also wrote "The Holy Innocents". see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.64! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Buenas Noches, Buenos Aires by Gilbert Adair add to wishlist A wonderfully funny yet tender evocation of the hedonistic 1980s. A young gay British man comes to 1980s Paris to teach English and to taste the erotic life that has eluded him in Britain. He suddenly finds himself in the midst of a sexual free-for-all beyond his wildest dreams - and then the AIDS epidemic hits. A beautiful, profane and witty ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.57!
10	The death of the author more books like this by Gilbert Adair add to wishlist By the author of "Love and Death of Long Island" and "The Holy Innocents", this is a black satire of contemporary theoretical cultishness and a metaphysical murder mystery, featuring Professor Leopold Sfax, the critic, theorist and philosopher whose fame spreads far and wide. see all copies from $2.70! new only from $5.75! \| first editions \| SVS
11	A Mysterious Affair Style more books like this by Gilbert Adair add to wishlist It is London in 1946. An actress is murdered, not just on camera but in full view of a crowded film set. Only six people had an opportunity to administer the poison yet not one of them had a conceivable motive. As Evadne Mount, bestselling crime novelist, discovers, however, all six did have a motive for committing another, earlier, still unsolved ... see all copies from $2.53! new only from $16.38!
12 view cover	Mademoiselle de Scuderi: A Tale of the Times of Louis XIV more books like this by E T A Hoffmann, Dr. Andrew Brown, Jr., LLB (Translator), Gilbert Adair (Foreword by) add to wishlist Characterised by Hoffmann's remarkable ingenuity and attention to detail, it has been the inspiration for a host of thriller and crime writers. Parisian goldsmith Monsieur Cardillac is a genius at his craft. Greatly admired throughout Paris, he is renowned for his works of exquisite and matchless beauty. So much so, that it seems the desire to ... see all copies from $4.19! new only from $4.98! \| SVS
13 view cover	The Dreamers by Gilbert Adair add to wishlist A tale of sexual obsession set during the Paris street riots in 1968. The Dreamers is about a young American student who comes to Paris in 1968. Obsessed with film, he becomes involved with two fellow cineastes, a brother and sister whose incestuous relationship opens up to include him in their menage. Cocooned in their apartment the three of them ... see all copies from $2.53! new only from $9.36!
14 view cover	Surfing the Zeitgeist more books like this by Gilbert Adair add to wishlist A collection of Adair's essays written for the Sunday Times and Esquire magazine dealing with the cultural events and artefacts of the first half of this decade as well as the widest reaches of culture: fashion, commercials, controversies and debates that have engaged the consciousness of people today. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $19.99! \| first editions
15	Vietnam on film : from The Green berets to Apocalypse now more books like this by Gilbert Adair add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.79! \| first editions
16 view cover	Jinx more books like this by Theophile Gautier, Dr. Andrew Brown, Jr., LLB (Translator), Gilbert Adair (Foreword by) add to wishlist Paul d'Aspremont, on holiday in Italy, meets his fiancee in all but name, a young English girl named Alicia Ward. What begins as an urbane and courtly affair descends into a Gothic nightmare as Paul is revealed to possess the 'evil eye', a jinx that kills all those he befriends. see all copies from $2.53! new only from $7.66! \| SVS
17	A night at the pictures : ten decades of British film more books like this by Gilbert Adair, Nick Roddick add to wishlist see all copies from $2.53! first editions
18 view cover	Flickers: An Illustrated Celebration of One Hundred Years of Cinema more books like this by Gilbert Adair add to wishlist The author presents a single image from each of 100 years of cinema, together with a short essay on both the still itself and what that image represents in terms of film history. His aim has been to encompass the many facets of film without reducing the book to an academic inventory of highlights. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $99.00! \| first editions
19	Alice Through the Needle more books like this by Gilbert Adair add to wishlist Alice travels through the eye of a needle and meets many unusual creatures including the letters of the alphabet. see all copies from $1.99! first editions
20	Letters more books like this by François Truffaut, Gilles Jacob, Claude de Givray, Gilbert Adair add to wishlist With the characteristic variety of mood and tone evident in his films, these letters document the development of Francois Truffaut from rebellious boy to mature film-maker in the last years of his life. They reveal the warmth, humanity, idealism and sharp wit of a man whose work was his lifelong passion. His correspondents include other celebrated ... see all copies from $11.99! new only from $96.94! \| first editions
21 view cover	The Key of the Tower more books like this by Gilbert Adair add to wishlist A novel set in France and with a complex plot of innumerable twists. It incorporates a silver Rolls-Royce, a mysteriously ubiquitous tower, a chic and mercurial Frenchwoman, a rediscovered masterpiece of art history, and a pursuit across the Brittany coastline, with a climax at Mont Saint-Michel. see all copies from $11.99! first editions
22	Peter Pan and Children by Jenny Thorne (Illustrator), Gilbert Adair add to wishlist see all copies from $6.31! new only from $17.36!
23	Alice through the needle's eye by Gilbert Adair, Jenny Thorne add to wishlist see all copies from $12.19! first editions
24	Peter Pan and the only children more books like this by Gilbert Adair, Jenny Thorne add to wishlist Ten-year-old Miranda mysteriously jumps from the ship carrying her and her family from India to England and meets Peter Pan, who now resides beneath the waters of the Indian Ocean. see all copies from $2.53! first editions \| SVS
25	Myths & memories more books like this by Gilbert Adair add to wishlist see all copies from $2.53! first editions

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