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.
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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.
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First U. K. Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp 155. The basis of the Bertolucci movie 'The Innocents' also later rewritten and published as The Dreamers. ISBN 0434045780. Original publisher's plum coloured cloth lettered silver at the spine. Fine in VG+ dust wrapper (no nicks, chips, inscriptions, price clipping, etc. ) Very slight unobjectionable creasing at top edges.
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First U. K. Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp 155. The basis of the Bertolucci movie 'The Innocents' also later rewritten and published as The Dreamers. ISBN 0434045780. Original publisher's plum coloured cloth lettered silver at the spine. Fine in near fine dust wrapper (no nicks, chips, inscriptions, price clipping, etc. ) Very faint creasing at top edges. Excellent condition.
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Fine in Fine jacket. Book. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. First printing w/full number line, stated first American edition. Maroon boards, maroon cloth spine wrap, gilt spine titles, slight shelf wear. Pages crisp, clean; slight fox at endpages. Dust wrapper fine; protected in new clear sleeve. From the cover: "In the tradition of Jean Cocteau's 'Les Enfants Terribles, ' considered a masterpiece, this is a far better book."-Anthony Burgess. 155 pages.
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Fine in Fine jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. A very crisp and clean first American edition, almost new and unread condition, gift quality! 154 very clean, unmarked and uncreased historical pages! Very very scarce and hard-to-find! Dj is nicely preserved in a brand new protective mylar plastic cover! "In that winter of 1968 in Paris, watching the movies is no longer enough----it's time to live them, and damn the consequences. As if to prove the point, the Cinematheque Fancaise shuts down and three of its most loyal rats----obsessive watchers of old movies----are left to their own devices. The three, the French twins Guillaume and Danielle and their American friend Matthew, decide to restage the movies, with special debt to the Cocteau of Les enfants terribles, in an empty Left Bank apartment. It begins with seemingly harmless film quizzes but soon descends into sexual role playing designed to exhilarate and mortify. Performing screen fantasies with their bodies, they withdraw little by little into a hermetically sealed universe of their own creation, an airless, obsessive universe of private games, ordeals, and humiliations. This vertiginous free fall into scripted sensual abandon is interrupted only when a paving stone comes flying through the window: the May riots of 1968 have begun. In a self-consciously sinuous prose style studded with aphorisms and allusions, Gilbert Adair has written a stunning tour de force about bruised purity and the voluptuousness of an irrecoverable moment in time." Extremely rare and out-of-print!
