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Nazioni Unite [The United Nations Weekly of the "Mazzini Society"]. New York, 1942-1943.The collection includes:Nazioni Unite, Anno I, N. 1 - 5 Marzo [March] 1942Nazioni Unite, Anno I, N. 2 - 12 Marzo [March] 1942Nazioni Unite, Anno I,…
La Legione. New York, 1942-1943.The collection includes:La Legione, Vol. I, No. 4 -December 2, 1942 La Legione, Vol. I, No. 5 - December 17, 1942La Legione, Vol. II, No. 1 - January…
Divagando. New York, 1943-1951.Divagando was a stylish monthly magazine, nearly all of whose articles were in Italian, begun in 1942-1943. Each issue contained a mix of essays,…
Solidarity: published on the occasion of the 25th Anniversary of Local 563, Shoe Service Union, U.S.W. of A. AFL-CIO. Brooklyn: Shoe Service Union of US of A., AFL-CIO, [1958].Pages 1-29 of this memorial program for a celebration of the 25th anniversary of the Shoe Service Union (part of the AFL-CIO) are in English; and…
The Road to Freedom: A Monthly Journal of Anarchist Thought and Interpretation: Special Sacco-Vanzetti NumberThis English-language journal leads with a cover article by two of the most famous non-Italian anarchists, Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman.
Ultra: strenna commemorativa del XV anniversario della fondazione della Italian Dressmakers Union, Local 89, I.L.G.W.U. [Extremist: commemorative gift of the XV anniversary of the founding of the Italian Dressmakers Union, Local 89, I.L.G.W.U.]Luigi Antonini, head of Local 89, inscribed this copy; stunning artwork throughout In one of the photos, above, you see a paean in English to labor…
Salviamo due innocenti! Fate tutti il vostro dovere!
Autograph letter, signed of Vincenzo Polidori, one of the founders and owners of Il Progresso Italo-Americano, December 3, 1885 to William Shipman, Esq., attorney for the landlord of the building in which Il Progresso was housed.The letter notes the inclusion, in the envelope, of a rent payment to the landlord (through his attorney). Polidori and Il Progresso's co-owner Carlo…
Ultime ed importanti sfide di lotte....al Washington Square Theatre Angelo Taramaschi...Greco-Romana...Peter Papas...Joe Langasho...
Sangue Siciliano: gran romanzo storico dell'epoca della dominazione BorbonicaThe Collection's edition is the Italian imprint, containing almost 40 of 110 numbers. But Durante lists a 1910 imprint by the American Premium Book…
Il diario di un emigrato. New York: Tipografia dell'Araldo Italiano, 1904.Camillo Cianfarra was one of the best Italian-language journalists in the U.S. A copy of this autobiography is extremely rare.Published in 1904, this…
Razzismo e AnarchismoOne of the "scherzi poetici" of De Rosalia, this is a short work in verse in 8-line stanzas (A,A,A,A,A,A,B,B; C,C,C,C,C,C,C,C;B,B,B,B,B,B,A,A, etc.),…
Similar to Lu novu Tuppi Tuppi, this work is in verse in Sicilian dialect. Unlike the other work, this is comprised of 15 separate short poems on…
Semiramis [FACSIMILE]. New York: [n.p.], 1922.
Memorie Autobiografiche [Autobiographical Memoirs]. Transl. by Luigi Galleani. New York: A. Salsedo, 1929.This is a translation from the French of the autobiography of Clement Duval, a French anarchist and thief, whose sentence upon conviction was commuted…
[May Day broadside] Salve! O compagni di miseria e di lavoro!....Viva il Primo Maggio!
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…
A Talk Between Two Workers. Oakland: Man!, 1933.This is the rare work in English in the collection (although I have a large number of works in English) because it is clearly a translation of a work…
Nostalgici pensieri. [n.p.]: [Cincinnati], [n.d.].Dedicated by author Novelli to his "consort" Iolanda. This copy is inscribed by Novelli to his friend, Theodore Gantz. The bookseller who sold me this…
La Madonna del Carmine e gli Italiani d'America: storia del santuario della Madonna del Carmine 115.ma strada in [sic] New York City. New York: [n.p.], 1954.On the verso of the title page, there is a "nihil obstat" (nothing hinders [it from being published]) of the "censor librorum" (Censor of books), that…
D'Italia in California: Racconto di Ermolao Rubieri [From Italy to California: story of Ermolao Rubieri] [FACSIMILE]. Firenze: Stab. di Giuseppe Civelli, 1878.Rubieri (1818-1879) was an Italian politician, writer, poet, dramatist and patriot. In 1848-49, he was a volunteer in the first war of independence.…
Leonardo: Annual Magazine of the Leonardo Da Vinci Art School. New York: Leonardo da Vinci Publishing House, MCMXXV [1925].This is the only "annual" like this for this important school for working men and women - that is, there were night (as well as day) classes for those…
Faccetta nera liberata. [sheet music]. San Francisco: Canessa Print, 193?The composer, Guido Trento (b. Rome 1892- d. San Francisco 1957), emigrated to the U.S. at a very young age, was primarily an actor in Italian films,…
Il Messaggero della Salute: rivista mensile d'igiene, di terapia fisio-psichica e di cultura eclettica [The Messenger of Health: a monthly review of hygiene, of physico-psychiatric therapy, and of eclectic culture], Anno 9, No. 88. Chicago: Italian Labor Publishing Co., Gennaio [January] 1927.For a discussion of this magazine that ran for at least eleven years (1918 or 1919 - 1929), and that was utterly sui generis, neither radical, nor…