RAW by Roxanne Klein & Charlie Trotter

SIGNED and INSCRIBED by ROXANNE KLEIN Groundbreaking Raw Food Author and Chef Owner of her eponymous Larkspur, Marin County restaurant ROXANNE'S in black ink on the title page " Doug, Enjoy your Raw experience! Roxanne Klein 3.04 "

Published by Ten Speed Press, Berkeley, 2003. First edition, first printing so stated, number-line starts at 1. Hardcover in dustjacket, black cloth with green printing on the spine, 11.25" x 9.25", avocado green endpapers, 215 pages, beautifully illustrated throughout with color photographs of the captivating dishes detailed in the book. NEAR FINE CONDITION BOOK & DUSTJACKET: tight, bright, clean and unmarked, the unpriced-clipped DJ has a touch of edge and corner-tip wear. A handsome and uncommon copy SIGNED by iconic vegetarian chef and restauranteur Roxanne Klein.

In the early 2000s Chef Owner Roxanne Klein was the hottest thing on the American food scene. People called her a revolutionary, comparisons to Alice Waters were made. Klein created quite the stir in the culinary world by introducing a new fine dining cuisine based on raw, organic vegetarian ingredients. Roxanne's was one of the most innovative new restaurants in the San Francisco Bay Area. The restaurant's "living food" cuisine earned rave reviews from both diners and food critics. Gourmet Magazine stated, "Roxanne's is simply the most innovative restaurant of our time." Famed Bay Area critic Michael Bauer said Roxanne's offers "truly four-star dining, with a world class wine list and elegant decor." A graduate of the California Culinary Academy, her creativity with vegetarian cuisine and her broad knowledge of organic ingredients earned her respect from a variety of culinary authorities.

THE SCAR: A TRAGEDY IN ONE ACT, by Rebecca NJAU (REBEKA NJAU).

KILIMANJARO, TANZANIA: Kibo Art Gallery, 1965. First Edition.

SIGNED, INSCRIBED and DATED in SWAHILI by REBEKA NJAU on the title page: "Asante sana kwa kututembelea Nairobi / Rebeka Njau (signed) / 7-7-72". (Thank you so much for visiting us in Nairobi / Rebeka Njau / 7-7-72.)

Booklet, black wrappers, white titles, side stapled, 5.75x7.75 (15x19.5 cm), 32 pages. Photo portrait of the author on the inside front cover.

VERY GOOD condition, lightly handled, tight, bright, clean and clear. A lovely copy.

RARE with the SIGNATURE and SWAHILI INSCRIPTION of Rebeka Njau.

About REBEKA NJAU (from Wikipedia):

******Rebeka Njau (née Nyanjega; born 15 December 1932) was Kenya's first female playwright and a pioneer in the representation of African women in literature. Her writing has addressed topics such as female genital mutilation and homosexuality. Her earliest works appeared under the name "Rebecca Njau".

THE SCAR, a one-act play, is considered the first play written by a Kenyan woman. It was published in book form in 1965 by Kibo Art Gallery in Marangu (after first appearing in a journal in 1963). THE SCAR premiered at the Uganda National Theatre in 1963 and went on to be performed in Kenya, Ghana, Tanzania and the USA. The play centres on the issue of female genital mutilation. The main character is Mariana, a former prostitute who tries to help girls escape female genital mutilation, which she regards as a "brutal custom". She advocates for alternative forms of initiation that can empower girls. Mariana is opposed by other women, who claim to be acting on behalf of the community's elders. The play ends with Mariana being shamed for having an illegitimate child and losing her status. In 1964, a second play by Njau, In the Round Chain, was performed before being banned by the Ugandan government.******

TSUNEKO NAKAZATO EXHIBITION CATALOG Award Winning Japanese Female Writer - PHOTOS, MANUSCRIPTS, MEMORABILIA Kanagawa Museum 1989

TSUNEKO NAKAZATO EXHIBITION CATALOG including Manuscripts, Books, Photos, and Personal Memorabilia. The exhibition, THE HEART OF THE STORY, was held at the Kanagawa Modern Literature Museum in 1989. The catalog was published by the Kanagawa Literature Promotion Foundation in conjunction with the exhibition. First Edition. TEXT IN JAPANESE.

Softcovers, 7x10 inches, 32 pages. FULLY ILLUSTRATED.

NEAR FINE condition, tight, bright, clean and unmarked.

About TSUNEKO NAKAZATO (from Wikipedia):

******Tsuneko Nakazato, b.1909 d.1987, was the pen name of a novelist in Showa period Japan. Her real name was Nakazato Tsune.

Nakazato was born in Fujisawa city, Kanagawa prefecture and graduated from the Kanagawa Girls' Higher School. When she was 17 years old she met Tatsuo Nagai and started writing, publishing multiple novellas before her marriage at age 19.

In 1938, Nakazato became the first woman to win the prestigious Akutagawa Prize, with her short story Noriai bashi. After World War II, she came to be known for a number of works addressing the issue of international marriage, including Mariannu monogatari (Maryann's Story, 1946) and Kusari (Chain, 1959), which were drawn from her own daughter's marriage to an American. Her novel Utamakura (Song Pillow, 1973) was awarded the Yomiuri Prize. In 1974, she received the Japan Art Academy Prize, and became a member of that institution in 1983.

Nakazato was a resident of Zushi, Kanagawa from 1932 until her death due to colon cancer in 1987. Her grave is at the temple of Engaku-ji in Kamakura.******

TWO LARGE SCRAPBOOKS kept by JEAN (Jeannie) LA BREE of CASSELTON, NORTH DAKOTA. 1950s-1980s.

The scrapbooks consist of two large, 15x13 inch, 3 ring binders with vinyl covers, each with approximately 30 leaves (i.e. 60 pages) that are covered with plastic. Almost every page is filled with glued or tipped in articles, photographs, cards, notes, letters, and other ephemera related to Casselton, North Dakota, and to the life of Jean La Bree from the 1950s through the early 1980s as a High Schooler in Casselton; a college student in Missouri, Miami and New York; an aspiring model and professional dancer in New York; etc.

One scrapbook contains a lot of pages filled with clipped articles and photographs related to Casselton, North Dakota, where Jean La Bree grew up and where her father was a lawyer; lots of pages filled with travel ephemera; and lots of pages filled with ephemera from New York including modeling photos, dance photos, Hunter College items, a Birdland Jazz Center item, etc. etc. While in New York was Jean La Bree a model, dancer, student at Hunter, a jazz aficionado? The dates range from the 1950s to the early 1980s.

The other scrapbook has a handwritten title on the spine that says: "JEANNE COLLEGE YEARS: Stephens [Stephens College] Columbia, Missouri; University of Miami; Etc." The first page includes an announcement of Commencement Exercises for the Senior Class of Stephens College. It is dated 1952 and has the signature of Jeannie Claire La Bree. Did she then take her AA degree and go to the University of Miami, then Hunter College (New York)? Looks like she did. Lots of college related ephemera including photographs of fellow students and friends, newspaper clippings (including a number of articles about Panty Raids that turned nasty), programs, banners etc. What's a cloth Confederate Flag doing in here? Hmmm.

The Scrapbooks are in VERY GOOD condition.

The 1940 census provides the following information on Jean La Bree - Age: 7; Born: North Dakota, Casselton; Gender: Female; Home in 1940: Casselton, North Dakota; Father Gordon La Bree 39, Mother Olga La Bree 35.

What happened to Jean Claire La Bree after 1940 is in these two filled scrapbooks. This Casselton, North Dakota, girl who moved on to live an adventurous woman's life is just waiting to be uncovered. By you.

BUYERS PLEASE NOTE: These two large scrapbooks are very heavy and will require additional shipping charges. After placing your order you will be notified of the additional charges and be able to accept or reject them before your payment is processed. Or you can contact us ahead of time to find out the shipping charge to your country. Thanks.

This is an UNPRODUCED SCREENPLAY by EVA BARTOK titled LETTER TO MY DAUGHTER or IMRE. Undated (1970s?) The screenplay seems to be Semi-Autobiographical. It tells the story of a Mother and Her Young Daughter in Nazi Germany. Eva Bartok had a Catholic mother and a Jewish Father, and so does the mother in this screenplay. The inner angst this caused Bartok (and the mother and child in this screenplay) during the Nazi years is on full display. Photocopied on plain white paper (copy machine copies were, and still are, common among draft, production and working screenplays; drafts could be quickly made and sent to the film's writers, agents, producers, directors, etc.), 8.5x11 inches, 136 pages plus a title page, pages printed on one side only. Plastic spiral bound. GOOD condition, the title page has some words covered with White Out and white label tape, the title is written in black marker on the front page edges; there are a few relevant margin notes (photocopied as is this entire draft); the last few pages have light staining at the left margin; there are the usual photocopying dust marks and some corner creases, otherwise the script is bright and clear. An Unusual and Rare Screenplay by the Actress EVA BARTOK, perhaps revealing some of what it was like for her as a Catholic / Jewish child married to a Nazi Officer in Nazi Germany. This is the only copy that I have or have ever seen. About EVA BARTOK (from Wikipedia): ******Eva Bartok (b. 1927 d. 1998), was an actress born in Budapest, Hungary as Eva Marta Szoke Ivanovics. She began acting in films in 1950 and her last credited appearance was in 1966. She is best known for appearances in Blood and Black Lace, The Crimson Pirate, Operation Amsterdam, and Ten Thousand Bedrooms. During World War II, a teenaged Bartok, the daughter of a Jewish father and a Catholic mother, was forced to marry Hungarian Nazi officer Geza Kovacs; the marriage was annulled after the war on the grounds of coercion of a minor. She had four other marriages, all of which ended in divorce, including her final marriage, to actor Curd Jurgens (1955-56). Her daughter Deana was born in 1957, shortly after the marriage to Jurgens ended. Three decades later, Bartok claimed Deana's biological father was actually Frank Sinatra, with whom she had a brief affair in 1956. Eva Bartok died on 1 August 1998 in London.******

PANORAMIC PHOTOGRAPH of the WELLESLEY COLLEGE CLASS of 1964. Hundreds of Wellesley women. NO MEN.

Approximately 7x27 inches. Mounted in a wooden, glass fronted frame.

The photograph is in VERY GOOD condition - bright, sharp, clear, lovely. The wooden frame is solid, but please be cognizant of the sharp metal points on the backside that are holding the cardboard backing tight in the frame. The cardboard backing has the name "Mrs. W. S. (Rowe?)" written in pencil.

Your job is to find COKIE ROBERTS in the photograph! She was in the Wellesley Class of '64 so I assume she is in the photo somewhere. Also note the very few instances of diversity (no need for Affirmative Action, right Supreme Court?!!!)

A wonderful female time capsule from 1964.

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Archive of papers related to LORRAINE ALEXANDER, who in the early 1950s served in the U.S. MARINE CORPS, starting as a Private and rising to the rank of a Staff Sergeant.

Consists of:

* Lorraine Alexander's Armed Forces Military ID, which has her photo, fingerprints, and physical statistics - Blonde, Blue Eyes, 5'6", 130 pounds. * An 8x10 photograph of Platoon 6-A, Third Recruit Battalion, a female battalion. Dated Nov. 9th 1950. Photograph taken at Marine Corps Training Center, Parris Island, South Carolina. * Official USMC document/letter appointing Lorraine Alexander as a Private First Class in the Marine Corps. Dated 14 December 1950. * Official USMC document/letter appointing Lorraine E. Alexander as a Corporal. Dated 21 May 1951. * Official USMC document/letter appointing Lorraine E. Alexander as a Sergeant. Dated 23 November 1951. * Two official separation papers dated October 1953. * Honorable Discharge certificate, dated October 1953. * Certificate of Good Conduct award, dated October 4, 1953. * A document from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts honoring Lorraine Alexander for serving in the Korean War. It is Signed by the Governor of Massachusetts (likely autopen). Undated.* Certificate of Service card - showing period of active duty as 5 October 1950 to 4 October 1953. * A personal and sentimental letter to Lorraine "Lo" from another female Marine. From the letter: "If circumstances be so that we don't see each other after our TOUR, I'd like you to know that knowing you has brought me uncountable wealth. / Millie." Millie added a handwritten note to the letter, ending it with: "WAR GALS!". * A letter from the President of The University of Maryland, Harry Clifton Byrd, on his Office of the President stationery. HANDWRITTEN and SIGNED. It is addressed to Corporal Alexander. "Dear Corporal Alexander / Enclosed are four tickets to the football game Saturday for the four girls I was placed in front of Monday morning. Hope to see you all at College Park. / Sincerely, H.C. Byrd". This letter comes with its envelope, postmarked 1952, sent to Quantico, Virginia. (Tickets are not present) * A letter from the President of The University of Maryland, H.C. Byrd, on his Office of the President stationery. HANDWRITTEN and SIGNED. It is addressed to Corporals Alexander and Walters. In it Byrd says he is enclosing four tickets for the University's final football game of the season, against West Virginia. The letter is undated. (Tickets are not present.)* A ticket stub for a University of Maryland vs. North Carolina game on October 20, 1951. The game was played at BYRD stadium. The ticket states: "President's Box" on the left edge. * A document relating to "mustering out" payment for Lorraine E. Alexander, SSGT, USMC.* A 1960 invoice for a wedding dinner for 76, including a 75 piece 2-tiered wedding cake. Sent to Miss Lorraine Alexander. Her wedding perhaps?

CONDITION: Some creases, closed tears, folds, a bit of foxing, and other signs of age and handling, but everything remains solid, clean and clear.

About Women in the Marines during the Korean War (from the USMC website):

"In 1950, fewer than five years after World War II ended, the United States found itself once again confronted by a war for which it was unprepared. As before, a downsized military establishment rushed to call up, draft and recruit manpower, but recruitment numbers fell short of military requirements.

And just as in previous wars, the services turned again to American women, asking them to leave their homes, jobs and families to serve their country.

In March 1950, at the beginning of the Korean war, there were only 28 regular officer and 496 regular enlisted women Marines.By June 1950, the women Marines were authorized to comprise 100 officers, 10 warrant officers and 1,000 enlistees. Officers were trained at Marine Corps Base Quantico, Virginia, while enlisted women were trained at Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, South Carolina."

John Fitzgerald Kennedy was a strong ally of the International Ladies' Garment Workers Union (ILGWU) and had worked with Union President David Dubinsky on many important issues. JFK's assassination affected everyone and the editors of Justice printed a Memorial Edition which also included a Message of Support to Lyndon Baines Johnson from Dubinsky. JUSTICE was the official publication of the ILGWU from 1919 to 1995.

JUSTICE: International Ladies' Garment Workers Union. Volume 45, Issue 23, December 1, 1963. Published by the ILGWU, Jersey City, New Jersey, David Dubinsky President, Leon Stein Editor. Newspaper, 4 large leaves vertically folded into 8 pages, 16.5" x 11.5". Folded horizontally as issued. This original 1963 newspaper is in VERY GOOD CONDITION: small mailing label pasted to front page margin with penned number beneath, wear and small tears to the vertical fold but holding well, toning as normal and some light signs of age and use, otherwise tight, bright, clean and unmarked. A scarce JFK Memorial issue of this pioneering woman's labor union journal.

This JFK Memorial Edition features a full page portrait of JFK with a black memorial border on the front page, inside, within a black memorial border is President Kennedy's Inaugural Address delivered on January 20, 1962 with a b&w photograph of him speaking from the White House balcony. This is followed by the text of JFK's speech before the Convention of the American Federation of Labor Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFLCIO) in New York City on November 15, 1963, also with a black memorial border and b&w photo of him speaking. The back page shows a b&w photo of LBJ and a Message of Support in his new role as President of the United States sent to him by union leader David Dubinsky.

Founded in 1900, ILGWU was one of the largest and most significant labor unions in the American Labor Movement and one of the first with a primarily female membership. It's role in the history of women and immigrant Jewish and Italian women continues to be relevant today. Justice was published in English, Italian, Spanish, and Yiddish with much variation in content.

***** About the ILGWU from the Kheel Center for Labor Management Documentation and Archives Cornell University Library:

The International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union was founded in New York City in 1900 by mostly Socialist immigrant workers who sought to unite the various crafts in the growing women's garment industry. The union soon reflected changes in the sector and rapidly organized thousands of unskilled and semi-skilled women, mostly Jewish and Italian young immigrants. Exemplifying the "new unionism," the ILGWU led two of the most widespread and best-known industrial strikes of the early Twentieth Century: the shirtwaist makers' strike of 1909 in New York City and the cloak makers' strike of 1910 in Chicago. The union also tried to adapt to the fragmented and unstable nature of the industry. It adopted the "protocol of peace," a system of industrial relations that attempted to ensure stability and limit strikes and production disruption by providing for an arbitration system to resolve disputes.

The ILGWU exemplified the European-style social unionism of its founding members. They pursued bread and butter issues but provided educational opportunities, benefits, and social programs to union members as well. In 1919, the ILGWU became the first American union to negotiate an unemployment compensation fund that was contributed to by its employers. The ILGWU also pioneered in the establishment of an extremely progressive health care program for its members which included not only regional Union Health Centers but also a resort for union workers, known as Unity House. The Union also had an imaginative and pioneering Education Department which not only trained workers in traditional union techniques, but provided courses in citizenship and the English language.

Typescript with hand drawn embroidery designs, circa 1930s, copied from selected embroidery projects highlighting different techniques from Mrs. Archibald H. Christie's coveted 1909 publication "Embroidery : A Collection of Articles on Subjects Connected with the Study of Fine Needlework, including Stitches, Materials, Methods of Work, and Designing, and History, with Numerous Illustrations and Coloured Plates of Modern Work". Published London, James Pearsall & Co., MDCCCCIX. Hand typed typescript and hand drawn designs on onion skin paper, 8.5" x 11", 3 hole punched, bound with a single brass brad, about 75 leaves written on one side, some additional scraps (some on bank deposit slips dated 1930s) with hand drawn transfer patterns and handwritten notes laid-in, 22 pages filled with large color pencil drawings, and many pages of pen and ink patterns and beautifully detailed figures and diagrams. VERY GOOD CONDITION: mild age toning and wear around some hole punches, a lovely vintage homemade embroidery technique copy book.