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1905 Italian American Directory: Guida generale per il commercio Italo Americano [General guide for the Italian American trade]. New York: Italian American Directory Co., 1905.
Attempting to fill the same need that American city directories had long performed, this Italian American directory is notable for its national (and international) scope. It leaves no possible advertising space unused, with a lively multicolored…
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…
La via del Paradiso [The Way of Paradise]. New York: Casa ed. N. Morgillo, [1909].
A curious play with Saint Peter, Pope Pius VI, Vittorio Emanuele II, Garibaldi, all at the entrance to heaven. "Pietro" (mispelled "Pitero") says to himself, "It's really worth the trouble to abandon the lake, the fishing nets, the free life, to…
Obici: biografia [Obici: Biography]. New York: Tipografia Ed. Scarlino, 1943.
"Impressioni" of novelist Italo Stanco follows at end. Caminita describes the source of inspiration for this biography: walking up Broadway one evening with an editor of Il Corriere d’America. The sight of the electric sign at 47th Street and…
Soltanto l'eliminazione della neutralità potrà subito e per sempre impedire le guerre [Only the Elimination of Neutrality will be able Suddenly and for Always to Stop Wars]. Chicago: Italian-American Publishing Co., 1920.
As he did in his work on Italian-American journalism, q.v., Carnovale provides at the end of this pamphlet several pages of, as translated from the Italian, "judgments of American newspapers on my bilingual book, Why Italy Entered into the Great War…
Il supremo ideale umano raggiunto [The Supreme Ideal Human Reached]. Chicago: [n.p.], 1926.
One of the odder publications of Carnovale, a journalist whose most important work, also in the collection, is Il giornalismo degli emigrati italiani del Nord America. Carnovale seems to have prided himself on the breadth of genres in which to…
Pionieri ed eroi della storia americana [Pioneers and Heroes of American History]. New York: Frugone, Balletto & Pellegatti Printing & Publishing Co., 1907.
Dedicated to Melville Knox Bailey, founder & president of "Italo-American Educational League." Perhaps reflecting how early in the period of the Great Migration he was writing, Cavallaro’s work is not about Italians, but rather sets forth the…
Tre anni [1937-39] di lavoro in difesa degli immigrati italiani in America [Three Years [1937-39] of Work in Defense of Immigrant Italians in America]. New York: Comitato italiano per la difesa degli immigrati, 1940.
The leader of the Italian Committee for the Defense of Immigrants, Edward Corsi (b. Capestrano (L'Aquila) 1896 - d. New York 1965) immigrated to the U.S. in 1907 at the age of ten with his mother and step-father. A studious boy, he frequented Harlem…
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…
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…
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…
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.
Directory of Italian-Americans in Commerce and Professions-1937. Chicago: Continental Press, 1937.
First Edition [stated]; ex-libris copy (The Free Library of Philadelphia). Detailed directory by State and major City. Promises a bigger and better 1938 such Directory, but I have not found evidence that one was in fact published.
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…
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…
Saggio su di una concezione filosofica dell'anarchismo [Essay on a Philosophical Conception of Anarchism]. Pistoia: Fondazione-Archivio, famiglia Berneri, 1991.
Damiani's popularity remains strong, as this relatively recent (1991) publication suggests.
Memorie di Lorenzo da Ponte da Ceneda in tre volumi [Memoirs of Lorenzo Da Ponte][Volume 1 only]. New York: Gray & Bunce, Stampatori, 1829.
This much more famous work (than Poesie Varie) was also "Pubblicate dall' Autore." Da Ponte’s Memorie could not have been published in Italy at the time they were written for the reason that he freely criticized the Austro-Hungarian empire that…
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…
La democrazia e l'emigrazione in America [Democracy and Emigration in America]. Brescia: Morcelliana, 1964.
The signature stamp of Leonard Covello, the profoundly influential Italian-American educator in East Harlem, reflects his ownership of this copy of Dore's work, surely one of the four or five most highly cited sources of historical and sociological…
Almanacco illustrato dell'Elvezia: dono agli abbonati del 1895 [Illustrated Almanac of the "Elvezia", a gift for its subscribers in 1895]. San Francisco: L'Elvezia, [1894].
One of the earlier of the almanacs (of about 6 or 7) in the Collection. This 1895 Italo-Svizzero Americano almanac was published in San Francisco, Pietro Magetti handwritten owner name on cover. This is the "Supplemento all'Elvezia no. 7" that…