Autographed. Out of print for decades. First Edition published in America in 1942. The Society for the Suppression of Vice demanded the censorship due to the sexual nature of a particular phrase. Citadel Press offered an edition in 1943 minus the offending phrase, and a bestseller emerged, eventually selling more than three million copies in its various editions.
Unlike many books, The Chinese Room will be all things to all readers. Some will see it as a mystery story of the mind with suspense building up to a surprising yet inevitable climax.

Others will see a deeply satisfying tale of love and marriage-a story that shows us how much wiser we are than we know-at least in our bodies, if not in our minds.

Here is an uninhibited story about one of literature's most absorbing themes: the relationship of the sexes.

The Chinese Room merits a place in the league of earlier novels, censored due to erotic content, now accepted as literary masterpieces: Lady Chatterley's Lover, Lolita, and Tropic of Cancer.

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Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Oregon

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The Chinese Room (Autographed, Offers Accepted)

New York: Heritage Press, 1936. First Edition Thus; First Printing. Hardcover. Truly unique having a “double print front cover” possibly stamped twice by Heritage Press. Edition sold with ONLY slipcover, never a dust jacket. 

Excellent Book in a Very Good+ (silver) slipcase. Light rubbing on slipcase panel edges. 

Book spine in tact. No dog ear or marking, truly “like new”. 

Originally written between 1873 and 1884 and published posthumously in 1903 ( this one: The Limited Edition Club, inc 1936), The Way of All Flesh is regarded by some as the first twentieth-century novel. Samuel Butler's autobiographical account of a harsh upbringing and troubled adulthood shines an iconoclastic light on the hypocrisy of a Victorian clerical family's domestic life. It also foreshadows the crumbling of nineteenth-century bourgeois ideals in the aftermath of the First World War, as well as the ways in which succeeding generations have questioned conventional values.
Hailed by George Bernard Shaw as "one of the summits of human achievement," this chronicle of the life and loves of Ernest Pontifex spans four generations, focusing chiefly on the relationship between Ernest and his father, Theobald. Written in the wake of Darwin's Origin of Species, it reflects the dawning consciousness of heredity and environment as determinants of character. Along the way, it offers a powerfully satirical indictment of Victorian England's major institutions—the family, the church, and the rigidly hierarchical class structure. 

Offers accepted. 

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Limited Edition Club 1936. First Edition.

The Way of All Flesh (offers accepted)

Felicity Nussbaum

Book is excellent condition. Some pages have underlining by unknown person. Secondhand book. Spine & dust jacket very good. 

In eighteenth-century England, actresses were frequently dismissed as mere prostitutes trading on their sexual power rather than their talents. Yet they were, Felicity Nussbaum argues, central to the success of a newly commercial theater. Urban, recently moneyed, and thoroughly engaged with their audiences, celebrated actresses were among the first women to achieve social mobility, cultural authority, and financial independence. In fact, Nussbaum contends, the eighteenth century might well be called the "age of the actress" in the British theater, given women's influence on the dramatic repertory and, through it, on the definition of femininity.

Treating individual star actresses who helped spark a cult of celebrity—especially Anne Oldfield, Susannah Cibber, Catherine Clive, Margaret Woffington, Frances Abington, and George Anne Bellamy—Rival Queens reveals the way these women animated issues of national identity, property, patronage, and fashion in the context of their dramatic performances. Actresses intentionally heightened their commercial appeal by catapulting the rivalries among themselves to center stage. They also boldly challenged in importance the actor-managers who have long dominated eighteenth-century theater history and criticism. Felicity Nussbaum combines an emphasis on the actresses themselves with close analysis of their diverse roles in works by major playwrights, including George Farquhar, Nicholas Rowe, Colley Cibber, Arthur Murphy, David Garrick, Isaac Bickerstaff, and Richard Sheridan. Hers is a comprehensive and original argument about the importance of actresses as the first modern subjects, actively shaping their public identities to make themselves into celebrated properties. No

Actresses, Performance, and the Eighteenth-Century British Theater

In eighteenth-century England, actresses were frequently dismissed as mere prostitutes trading on their sexual power rather than their talents. Yet they were, Felicity Nussbaum argues, central to the success of a newly commercial theater. Urban, recently moneyed, and thoroughly engaged with their audiences, celebrated actresses were among the first women to achieve social mobility, cultural authority, and financial independence. In fact, Nussbaum contends, the eighteenth century might well be called the "age of the actress" in the British theater, given women's influence on the dramatic repertory and, through it, on the definition of femininity. Treating individual star actresses who helped spark a cult of celebrity—especially Anne Oldfield, Susannah Cibber, Catherine Clive, Margaret Woffington, Frances Abington, and George Anne Bellamy—Rival Queens reveals the way these women animated issues of national identity, property, patronage, and fashion in the context of their dramatic performances. Actresses intentionally heightened their commercial appeal by catapulting the rivalries among themselves to center stage. They also boldly rivaled in importance the actor-managers who have long dominated eighteenth-century theater history and criticism. Felicity Nussbaum combines an emphasis on the celebrated actresses themselves with close analysis of their diverse roles in works by major playwrights, including George Farquhar, Nicholas Rowe, Colley Cibber, Arthur Murphy, David Garrick, Isaac Bickerstaff, and Richard Sheridan. Hers is a comprehensive and original argument about the importance of actresses as the first modern subjects, actively shaping their public identities to make themselves into celebrated properties.

Rival Queens

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Janie Hibler

Cookbook, Pacific Northwest (PNW), no Dog Ears. Spine fully intact. ￼

Northwest cooking adapted to more sophisticated tastes without losing the spirit of a regional cuisine.

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

The Northwest Heritage Cookbook

Northwest cooks have made the most of the incredible bounty of a vastly diverse terrain--ocean, mountains, fertile valleys, and desert. Cooking teacher and food writer Janie Hibler weaves the strand of local culinary history into this collection of 220 delectable recipes, blending the old with the new. Photographs.

Dungeness Crabs and Blackberry Cobblers

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Tucker Max

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Proud of being socially inappropriate and sexually irresponsible, the author shares his carefree experiences.

I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell

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Aileen Crawley

Excellent condition, first edition. Dust jacket very good. ￼

Suleiman the Magnificent returns victorious from Rhodes and moves to consolidate his position, but war calls him away again and his Circassian wife, Khurrem, must deal with the jealousy, gossip, and intrigue of the royal court

The Shadow of God

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Evan S. Connell

Excellent condition. First edition, Spine intact, no dog ears, corners excellent. Dust jacket very good. ￼

"A Long Desire" is about man's constant yearnings throughout legend and history to attain the unattainable. Always grasping at the stars just out of reach, chasing the rainbow for that pot of gold, looking for that lost city that must be just over the next hill. This description may be from another edition of this product.

Eleven essays examine the lives and achievements of adventurers, explorers, treasure hunters, and others who have sought the unknown and seemingly unattainable throughout history.

A Long Desire

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Edmund Wilson

Wilson navigates his young adulthood with more than few bumps. He challenges himself and broadens his horizons, and falls short of his ambitions at times. A jarringly candid journal that reflects the era vividly. Wilson's insightful observations on the culture and events foreshadow his emerging talents as a prominent literary critic of his generation.

From Notebooks and Diaries of the Period

The Twenties

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Cynthia Ceilán

Maybe how we meet our end is just random circumstances, or maybe it’s more deliberately darwinian, with death sorting out the gene pool in its own inimitable fashion. After centuries on this earth, we humans still aren’t any closer to discovering the facts of death, but it continues to fascinate and perplex us. 

In this compendium of real life, anecdotes and observations regarding death [You know that thing that only happens to other people] ￼ you will discover why will never know what Albert Einstein‘s last words were, which celebrities phobias prove to be justified, and how a dead jockey manage to win a horse race. ￼

This is a collection of micro stories. 

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Tales of the Weirdly Departed

A book about life's only certainty - death - and the various ways in which it comes upon us, from the fitting to the downright ludicrous. It includes chapters on celebrity fatalities, coital catastrophes, sporting ends, and life's (and death's) little ironies.

Thinning the Herd

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Pam Jenoff

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

From the author of the runaway bestseller The Orphan's Tale comes a remarkable story of friendship and courage centered around three women and a ring of female secret agents during World War II. 1946, Manhattan One morning while passing through Grand Central Terminal on her way to work, Grace Healey finds an abandoned suitcase tucked beneath a bench. Unable to resist her own curiosity, Grace opens the suitcase, where she discovers a dozen photographs--each of a different woman. In a moment of impulse, Grace takes the photographs and quickly leaves the station. Grace soon learns that the suitcase belonged to a woman named Eleanor Trigg, leader of a network of female secret agents who were deployed out of London during the war. Twelve of these women were sent to Occupied Europe as couriers and radio operators to aid the resistance, but they never returned home, their fates a mystery. Setting out to learn the truth behind the women in the photographs, Grace finds herself drawn to a young mother turned agent named Marie, whose daring mission overseas reveals a remarkable story of friendship, valor and betrayal. Vividly rendered and inspired by true events, New York Times bestselling author Pam Jenoff shines a light on the incredible heroics of the brave women of the war and weaves a mesmerizing tale of courage, sisterhood and the great strength of women to survive in the hardest of circumstances.

The Lost Girls of Paris

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Kevin Boswell

Poems of Horror and Depravity

Dark Matter

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David Fontana

No markings. Binding perfect. ￼Warping due to bad position in box with other goods. No Dog Ears. I will be placing this under a LARGE Bible to help flatten. Please ask for further info. 

A visual key to dreams and their meanings.

Secret Language of Dreams

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Excellent condition, slight yellowing due to age (See photo). No dog ears, spine fully intact/not cracked. All pages included. #paperback #Fowlie #WallaceFowlie #FRENCH, #Literature ￼

English

Literary Criticism/companion

A Reading of Proust

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A SHELTERED VICTORIAN BEAUTY CAUGHT IN A TWIST OF DARK DESIRE -- A NOVEL OF SHATTERING ROMANTIC SUSPENSE

ANNA
the shy and lovely daughter of a powerful member of Parliament, engaged to a young aristocrat, innocent of the darker side of life and love as she pursued the gentle round of her days in her elegant Victorian mansion.

BELLA
a shameless creature of the night, savagely avaricious and sexually insatiable, draining her wealthy lovers of money and manhood in the city's most luxurious brothel.

No two women could have been more different. No two women ad ever been closer...as they shared the same body...while passion turned to poison... #paperback #VintageRomance￼

Belladona

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#paperback #fiction #margaretatwood #bookerprize #literature #adultfiction #histfic #historical 

A Novel

Iris describes the 1945 death of her sister, who drives her car off a bridge, followed, two years later, by the death of her husband, in a story that features a novel-within-a-novel about two unnamed lovers who meet in a dark backstreet room.

The Blind Assassin

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#paperback #FakingTheO #Self-help #Dating #Comedy #Humorous￼

Re-Entering the Dating Circle

Have you ever broken up from a recent relationship and found yourself back in the dating scene?
If so, Faking the "O" will help you navigate through the pitfalls of the dating scene. You'll learn how to identify the guys to drop after the first date, the ones who should have a second chance, and the ones who might just be your next serious relationship.

Faking the "O" is sprinkled with laughter, tears, and experience, that will help you relate to, and learn from, different dating scenarios.

Faking the "O" will make you laugh, cringe, and maybe even curse out loud!

Faking the O

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Young Walter heart rate first meets the mysterious woman in white and white soon became one of the most popular novels of the 19th century. Secrets, mistaken identity is, surprise revelations, amnesia, locked rooms and locked asylums, and an unorthodox villain Made this mystery thriller an instant success when it first appeared in 1860, and Has continued to enthrall readers ever since.￼ 
 ￼￼#paperback #TheWomanInWhite #WilkieCollins #Mystery #Drama #Classic￼

A novel

The woman in white

#paperback #ChildrensClassics #Classic #BookToMovie #IanFleming #ChittyChittyBangBang￼

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1964)

#hardcover #fiction #mystery #death #deathcomestopemberly #hardback #mayhem #murder #JaneAustenSpoof￼

Pemberley is thrown into chaos after Elizabeth Bennett's disgraced sister Lydia arrives and announces that her husband Wickham has been murdered.

Death Comes to Pemberley

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#hardcover #cookbook #keto #cooking #nonfiction 

Reboot Your Metabolism in 21 Days and Burn Fat Forever

Mark Sisson--author of the mega-bestseller The Primal Blueprint--unveils his groundbreaking ketogenic diet plan that resets your metabolism in 21 days so you can burn fat forever. Mounting scientific research is confirming that eating a ketogenic diet could represent one of the greatest nutritional breakthroughs of our time--and that it might be the healthiest and most effective weight loss strategy ever. Going "keto" by eating high fat, low-to-moderate protein and low-carb foods enables you to break free from the disastrous effects of carbohydrate dependency by resetting your metabolism and promoting metabolic flexibility--where your body learns to burns fat instead of sugar for energy, even when you go off plan. Unlike many other ketogenic programs that require challenging restrictions and deprivation or offer misinformation, Mark Sisson, bestselling author of The Primal Blueprint and publisher of the #1 paleo blog MarksDailyApple.com, presents a unique two-step, scientifically validated approach for going keto the right way. He first reveals the real secret to rapid and sustained weight loss, which is in becoming "fat-adapted" before entering full nutritional ketosis. This process allows your body to learn to burn fat more efficiently, resulting in increased and sustained weight loss over the long-term. It takes as little as 21-days to reprogram your metabolism to burn fat for fuel, by ditching processed grains, sugars, and refined vegetable oils in favor of nutrient-dense, high fat, primal/paleo foods--and you'll see immediate results. Next, you'll fine-tune with Intermittent Fasting and then foray into full ketogenic eating for a further weight loss boost and improved health. With The Keto Reset Diet, you can eat to total satisfaction by enjoying rich, high-satiety foods, and even weather occasional slip-ups. You'll use keto as a lifelong tool to stay trim, healthy, energetic, and free from the disastrous health conditions caused by the typical American diet. With step-by-step guidance, daily meal plans and a recipe section with over 100 delicious keto-friendly recipes, this is the definitive guide to help the keto-beginner or the experienced health enthusiast understand the what, why, and how to succeed with ketogenic eating.

The Keto Reset Diet

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#paperback #dystopianfiction #scifi #fiction 

Bellwether Prize winner Hillary Jordan’s provocative new novel, When She Woke, tells the story of a stigmatized woman struggling to navigate an America of a not-too-distant future, where the line between church and state has been eradicated and convicted felons are no longer imprisoned and rehabilitated but chromed—their skin color is genetically altered to match the class of their crimes—and then released back into the population to survive as best they can. Hannah is a Red; her crime is murder. In seeking a path to safety in an alien and hostile world, Hannah unknowingly embarks on a path of self-discovery that forces her to question the values she once held true and the righteousness of a country that politicizes faith.

When She Woke

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My Month of Madness

An award-winning memoir and instant New York Times bestseller--and inspiration for the major motion picture starring Chloë Grace Moretz--that goes far beyond its riveting medical mystery, Brain on Fire is the powerful account of one woman's struggle to recapture her identity.

When twenty-four-year-old Susannah Cahalan woke up alone in a hospital room, strapped to her bed and unable to move or speak, she had no memory of how she'd gotten there. Days earlier, she had been on the threshold of a new, adult life: at the beginning of her first serious relationship and a promising career at a major New York newspaper. Now she was labeled violent, psychotic, a flight risk. What happened?

In a swift and breathtaking narrative, Susannah tells the astonishing true story of her descent into madness, her family's inspiring faith in her, and the lifesaving diagnosis that nearly didn't happen. "A fascinating look at the disease that...could have cost this vibrant, vital young woman her life" (People), Brain on Fire is an unforgettable exploration of memory and identity, faith and love, and a profoundly compelling tale of survival and perseverance that is destined to become a classic.

Brain on Fire

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#paperback #fiction #timetravel #romance #historical #bestseller #fantasyfiction #paperback 

Passionately in love, Clare and Henry vow to hold onto each other and their marriage as they struggle with the effects of Chrono-Displacement Disorder, a condition that casts Henry involuntarily into the world of time travel.

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