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Il libro annuale del lavoratore italiano in America 1927 [The Italian Labor Year Book 1927]. [New York?]: Federazione Italiana del Partito Socialista d'America, 1927.
Eugene Debs on cover, & Debs introduction ("Man, Woman and Child in the Conception of Debs"; oration of Norman Thomas; preface by Morris Hilquit, Anna Kuliscioff.
Almanacco Sovversivo 1906-07 [Subversive Almanac 1906-1907]. Barre: Bib. Circolo Studi Sociali (ed. a cura della), 1906-1907.
Prefatory essay by Bernard Lazare; 13 pages of historical references, by date, from March 1906 through March 1907 [it says "1897"]; other essays by him, and other Italians (including Luigi Fabbri), and works translated from French and German…
Almanacco enciclopedia italo americano 1913 [Italian American Encyclopedia Almanac for 1913]. New York: J. Personeni, 1913.
Note the advertisement on rear cover for L'Adunata dei Refrattari, not exactly consistent with the prominente press values that Personeni represented.
This otherwise general business-advertisement filled "almanac" is noteworthy for the 16-page…
1908 Almanacco della rivoluzione [1908 Almanac of the Revolution]. Paterson: Libreria Sociologica, 1907.
In the 62 pages of this work are essays by various writers. Of particular note at the end is a 4-page catalogue of other books published by the Libreria Sociologica, a bookstore as well as publisher, which was founded in 1903 by noted anarchist Ninfa…
In memoria della Rev.ma Francesca Saverio Cabrini: Fondatrice e Superiora Generale delle missionarie del S. Cuore del Gesù, volata al cielo in Chicago il 22 Dicembre 1917 [In memory of the most Reverend Francesca Saverio Cabrini: Foundress and Superior General of the missions of San Cuore del Gesù, ascended into heaven in Chicago on the 22d of December, 1917]. [n.p.]: A. Bernasconi, [1918].
Mother Cabrini, later the first U.S citizen canonized by the Church (predicted here), became Saint Cabrini. She founded the Sacred Heart Missionary and also orphanages and hospitals throughout the U.S. and elsewhere. The work includes translations in…
Almanacco Sovversivo 1916 [Subversive Almanac 1916]. New York: Nicoletti Bros Press, 1916.
After a 15-page almanac of historical events associated with each day of the year, there are essays by Luisa Migel, Pietro Gori, Joe Hill, and Clifford Howard. List of "opere" and "opuscoli" by anarchists are in the rear. Rear cover: "La Nostra…
Mémoires de Lorenzo D'Aponte [Memoirs of Lorenzo Da Ponte]. Paris: Pagnerre, 1860.
This French version of Da Ponte's memoirs, q.v., dated 1860, translated from the Italian by M.C.D. De la Chavanne, still pre-dated by a couple of decades any publication in Italian in Italy of this work, so critical of the Austro-Hungarian empire…
I delitti di Dio [God's Crimes]. Paterson: Libreria Sociologica, [1906?].
Although the author's name appears nowhere in this work itself, Sébastien Faure (1858-1942) is listed as the author on p. 3, under "opuscoli di propaganda antireligiosa" of the catalogue at the end of the 1908 Almanacco della Rivoluzione, q.v.,…
Un italiano in America [An Italian in America]. Milano: Treves, ed., 1892.
This is the very hard to find first edition of this important, astute observation of the personal and collective experience of Italian immigrants in America in the very early days - Rossi arrived in New York in 1880 - of the mass migration.Rossi (b.…
Nel paese dei dollari (tre anni a New-York) [In the Country of Dollars: Three years in New York]. Milano: Max Kantorowicz, 1893.
This work first appeared as a collection of articles issued in La Tribuna of Rome.It includes vivid impressions of three years in New York, with sections on criminality, capital punishment, the system of incarceration, transportation methods,…
Un italiano in America [An Italian in America]. Milano: Casa Editrice La Cisalpina, 1899.
This is the second edition of this work, the first one with illustrations. The first edition, published in 1892, is also in the Collection. Rossi (b. Veneto, 1857; d. Buenos Aires, 1921) was first published in America on December 13, 1880 in the…
Gli italiani di New York. [The Italians of New York]. New York: Labor Press, 1939.
This Italian version of the original WPA Guide "The Italians of New York" was "riveduta ed ampliata da Aberto Cupelli" (revised and expanded by Alberto Cupelli); sponsored by Guilds Commmittee for Federal Writers Publications, Inc.The WPA Guides to…
Gli Americani nella vita moderna osservati da un italiano [Contemporary Americans, Observed by an Italian]. Milano: Fratelli Treves, Ed., 1909.
This comprehensive text on the United States for young Italians was written by the author of the later New York publication, Grammatica-enciclopedia italiana-inglese, q.v. Included is a history of the U.S., discussions on religion, politics, commerce…
Cinquant'anni di vita italiana in America [Fifty Years of Italian Life in America]. New York: Bagnasco Press, 1921.
Inscribed by the author, see photo, to Luigi Barzini [Sr.], February, 1922. Alfredo Bosi’s 1921 Cinquant’anni di vita italiana in America claims itself to be the first history of Italians in the United States. (There are perhaps other candidates.)…
Cinquant'anni di vita italiana in America [Fifty Years of Italian Life in America]. New York: Bagnasco Press, 1921.
See the full description of this work in the entry for the other copy.This is a library copy of this work, with a softer cover page, and no rear cover; inscribed on the front free endpaper by Bosi to Dottore Guido Egidi, "omaggi d'amicizia, cordiale…
America! America!: atti e memorie del popolo [America! America! Acts and Memoirs of the People]. Casalvelino Scalo [Salerno]: Ed. Giuseppe Galzerano, 1979 [1981].
Antonio Margariti (b. Ferruzzano, Reggio Calabria, Italy, 1891 – d. Willow Grove, Pennsylvania, 1981) published these memoirs in 1979 at age 87. This "savage and touching" book (Durante) awakened a vast interest, so much so as to be a finalist for…
Italiani di America: Enciclopedia Biografica [Italians in America: Biographical Encyclopedia]. New York: Cocce Brothers, 1936.
Flamma (b. Cattomosetta, Sicily, 1882; d. New York, 1961) first emigrated to the United States in 1909. During the First World War, he was a volunteer with the American army. He lived in Chicago, where he worked as secretary of the Italian Chamber of…
Italiani di America: Enciclopedia Biografica Vol. III [Italians in America: Biographical Encyclopedia Vol. III]. New York: Cocce Brothers, 1949.
While this work calls itself "Volume III," it's really more a reprint of the original work from 13 years before but supplemented by additional names. Clearly, the original was successful enough that Flamma (or Cocce Press) thought it worthwhile to…
Fiorello LaGuardia. New York: Worthy Printing Company, Inc., 1934.
Published only a year after La Guardia was elected mayor of New York City, this work by Flamma is, for the first half, a dyspeptic (or dystopic) meditation on the vagaries of wealth, prosperity and our national illusion during the Depression. Only…
L'ordine figli d'Italia in America. New York: Società Tipografica Italiana, 1925.
We have some biographical details about Aquilano, a free-lance journalist, from Flamma's Italiani di America (b. Chieti, 1885; d. New York?). He directed out of Milan the daily, and still one of today’s most popular Italian-language newspapers, Il…
Catalogo Illustrato della premiata fabbrica di armoniche: Baldoni, Bartoli & Co., 60 Mulberry Street, New-York, N.Y. [Illustrated Catalogue of a Prizewinning Accordion Factory: Baldoni, Bartoli & Co., 60 Mulberry Street, New York, NY]. Firenze: Tip. Valgiusti - Firenze, [1890s].
Accordions made by this Italian and American company - at this time based on Mulberry Street in Manhattan - continue to be sold by many dealers, and the Baldoni family still has some involvement, though not in New York. On the cover, on which is…
Anni d'America. Lecce: Prem. Tipo-Litografia Prof. Vincenzo Masciullo, 1922.
Forzato-Spezia, a formidable orator and thinker, used an Italian publisher for this account of her years in America, drawn from articles she had published in newspapers in America. She noted in the dedicatory note to "Eros, mio figlio [Eros, my son]"…
Il vate etneo: conferenza tenuta a New York, in commemorazione di MARIO RAPISARDI, nell'Aula Magna del Normal College di Park Ave. sotto gli auspici del Circolo Italiano fra studentesse del medesimo Istituto [The Etnean Poet: lecture given in New York, in commemoration of MARIO RAPISARDI, in the Great Hall of the Normal College of Park Avenue under the auspices of the Circolo Italiano of the female students of that same Institute.] New York: Nicoletti Bros Press, 1914.
Preface by Matteo Teresi, on whom, see, in the collection, Con la patria nel cuore. La mia propaganda fra gli emigranti [With the Fatherland in my Heart. My propaganda among the immigrants] (Palermo: D’Antoni, 1925), and discussion there of Teresi's…
Strenna almanacco anno 1919 e catalogo generale della Libreria Banca Tocci [Free Almanac for the year 1919 and General Catalogue of the Banca Tocci Bookstore]. New York: Libreria Banca Tocci, 1919.
See my essay (on the site) Italian American Book Publishing and Book Selling, for a discussion of this work.C. Calvosa (of whom Durante says nothing) signed the introductory note. Francesco Tocci, perhaps deceased by 1919, was the nephew of the…
San Francisco e la sua catastrofe [San Francisco and its Catastrophe]. Tipografia Internazionale, 1906.
After the Italians of New York, those of San Francisco (and Chicago) probably had the most well-developed network of periodical press, book press, theatre, literature of various types, associations and other forms of collective efforts, including…