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[May Day broadside] Salve! O compagni di miseria e di lavoro!....Viva il Primo Maggio!
Almanacco enciclopedia italo americano 1913 [Italian American Encyclopedia Almanac for 1913]. New York: J. Personeni, 1913.This otherwise general business-advertisement filled "almanac" is noteworthy for the 16-page advertising supplement at the back, on yellow paper, for…
Un appello agli Italiani [An Appeal to Italians]. [New York]: L'Unità del Popolo, [1942.]Text is only in Italian, unlike the "Per un governo" which is otherwise a similar pamphlet issued by the Italian Communist Party, whose newspaper was…
La Strada, rivista mensile di cultura popolare [The Street: monthly review of popular culture], Anno 1, No. 4. New York: La Strada Publishing Co., Settembre [September] 1937.
La produzione: Le sue basi-I suoi mezzi, Le sue funzioni, I suoi scopi [Production: its bases, its means, its functions, its scope]. Newark: L'Adunata dei Refrattari, 1942.Gold O’Bay was one of several pseudonyms used by Tintino Rasi (b. Genoa, 1893; d. Philadelphia, 1963). Rasi was an anarchist at an early age in Genoa,…
La figlia dell'anarchico: Dramma sociale in tre atti. Jessup, PA: Gruppo Autonomo, 1928.Becchetti was one of several women radicals who wrote plays to reflect their political views, including that of the emancipation of women. These plays…
Sacrificio: Dramma in Tre Atti. [FACSIMILE] New York: [n.p.], 1919.About Abbamonte, we know that he wrote plays and short stories, and he wrote often for the Siscas' La Follia (around 1940). In his "Attori e…
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.
A Primer of Civics: Manuale di cittadinanza: designed for the guidance of the immigrant. Chicago: Illinois Society of the Colonial Dames of America, 1918.The author, a Bohemian immigrant to the United States, began this series with an English-Bohemian version published in 1912, then English only (1912),…
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…
Ad Antonio Fierro: spento da piombo fascista [For Antonio Fierro: killed by a fascist bullet]. New York: [n.p.], [1933].This leaflet contains a poem by the Italian-American labor poet Crivello dedicated to the assassinated Italian immigrant activist Fierro, with a…
Advanced Italian Lessons. New York: Italian Book Company New York, 1924 (1912).This is a copy of the Third Edition of this work, 1924, first published, in 1912. Arbib-Costa (b. Livorno, 1882; active, New York, 1900–1930),…
Al di là dell' Oceano: per i nostri emigranti [Life beyond the ocean: for our emigrants.] Tivoli: Tipografia Ed. Moderna, 1914.The author (about whom I have found nothing) tries to warn Italians that before they decide to emigrate either to North or to South America, they…
Al microfono: discorsi trasmessi alla Radio -Stazione W.O.F. [sic] [At the Microphone: talks transmitted on Radio Station W.O.F.]. New York: [n.p.], 1937.As the title of this self-published work states, these are transcriptions of talks transmitted by the author to his radio audience in 1937. The talks…
Alberi e casolari [Trees and Barns]. New York: Edizione in esilio, 1943.Ezio Taddei (b. Livorno, 1895; d. Rome, 1956) was involved in Italian politics at an early age: at thirteen he was arrested for involvement in a…
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,…
Almanacco Italo-Svizzero Americano Anno 1881 [Italian-Swiss American Almanac Year 1881]. San Francisco: Pub. di J. F. Fugazi, "No. 5 Montgomery Avenue, San Francisco, California," 1881.This earliest of the almanacs (of 6 or 7) in the Collection, published in San Francisco, lacks a book catalogue in the rear that the 1894 one by the…
America: Primo Amore [America: First Love]. Milano: Arnoldo Mondadori, 1959.This is the fourth edition of this work, which is an account of the author's two years in America immediately following the stock market crash of…
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…
Amici Italo-Americani! [Italian-American Friends!]. New York: Commissione Italiana del Comitato Statale di New York del Partito Comunista [April 1942]There is no printed date on this two-sided, all in Italian, handbill signed by Peter - sometimes "Pietro" - Cacchione, the first member of the New…
Aneliti e singulti. Medaglioni [Yearnings and Sobs. Sketches]. Newark: Biblioteca de L'Adunata dei Refrattari, 1935.This work was published in Newark by the Adunata dei Refrattari, the successor to the Cronaca Sovversiva led by Raffaele Schiavina (Max Sartin) after…
Antinatale [AntiChristmas]. New York: Biblioteca "Novatore" No. 4, [1910].Libero Tancredi was the journalistic pseudonym of Massimo Rocca (b. Torino 1884 - d. Salò 1973). This work dates from Rocca's youth, when he wrote for…
Aritmetica [Arithmetic]. Missoula: Scuole Fort-Missoula, 1943 [Anno XXI].This arithmetic textbook was written in Italian for classes for Italians - mostly civilians who were in the wrong place at the wrong time - who were…
Attraverso gli Stati Uniti per l'imagrazione italiana [Across the United States - through Italian Immigration]. Torino: Union Tip.-Ed. Torinese, 1913.This copy of the celebrated study by Mayor des Planches (b. Turin, 1851; d. Rome, 1920), written during his years in the U.S., is inscribed by the…
Berneri in Ispagna [Berneri in Spain]. Newark: Biblioteca de L'Adunata dei Refrattari, 1937.Deported to Italy from the U.S. in 1919 with his leader, Luigi Galleani, author Schiavina returned illegally to the U.S. in 1928 using the name Max…