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Il Martello [The Hammer], Anno III & IV. New York: Casa Ed. "Il Martello," 19 issues: Incomplete Anno III, IV- 1918, 1919: See the general entry for Il Martello for the years 1918-1943 (repeated in a few descriptions of individual issues) for the history of the founding…
Il Martello [The Hammer], Anno III, IV - 1918-1919 (incomplete)New York: Casa Ed. "Il Martello," 1 Gennaio [January] 1918 - 16 Febbraio [February] 1919.See the general entry for Il Martello for the years 1918-1943 (repeated in a few descriptions of individual issues) for the history of the founding…
Il Martello [The Hammer]. New York: Casa Ed. "Il Martello," 1918-1943.Carlo Tresca was the editor-in-chief (or equivalent) at several radical newspapers over his career, but the one that he founded and ran for decades —…
Lettera Aperta: al Diffamatore Ettore Patrizi, Direttore-Proprietario del giornale "L'Italia" di San Francisco, Cal. [Open Letter: to the defaming Ettore Patrizi, Director-Owner of the newspaper "L'Italia" of San Francisco, California]. Sacramento: 1911.This is a broadside that calls itself an "open letter" that is a complaint by the "subversives of Sacramento, California" about an article in the…
Grammatica-enciclopedia Italiana-Inglese per gli Italiani degli Stati Uniti [Italian-English Grammar-Encyclopedia for the Italians of the United States]. New York: Nicoletti Bros. Press, 1912.This important work of Pecorini (b. Italy, 1881; d. Argentina, 1957) was first published by the Nicoletti Brothers in 1911 “for the Italians in the…
Grammatica-enciclopedia Italiana-Inglese per gli Italiani degli Stati Uniti [Italian-English Grammar-Encyclopedia for the Italians of the United States]. New York: Nicoletti Bros. Press, 1912.Please review the lengthy description of this work in this same first edition, second printing (1911-1912) for a detailed description of Pecorini's…
Italian Lessons. New York: Italian Book Company New York, 1914 [copyright]."New & Revised edition. " This "new and revised edition [was] printed from new plates." (From "new plates" is the very definition of a new…
Nuovissima Grammatica Accelerata Italiana-Inglese e guida pratica dell'italiano in America. Corso Complete per imparare a scrivere, parlare e comprendere la lingua inglese in breve tempo senza maestro [Newest Accelerated Italian-English Grammar and Practical Guide for the Italian in America. Complete course for learning to write, speak and understand the English language in a short time, without a teacher]. New York: A. De Gaudenzi & Co., 1914.This work in the 1914 "latest edition" (as indicated on the cover but not on the title page) was originally issued in 1896, when it was copyrighted by…
Nuovissima Grammatica Accelerata: Italiana-Inglese ed Enciclopedia Popolare con Pronunzia. Divisa in 11 Parti.[Newest Accelerated Italian-English Grammar and Popular Encyclopedia, with pronunciation. Divided in 11 parts]. New York: Libreria De Martino, Inc./Italian Book Company, [1963].The original (1896) edition was self-published by the author; appears later to have sold the copyright to the IBC, and became a corporate officer of…
Dizionario moderno Italiano-Inglese, Vol. I/Modern Italian-English Dictionary, Vol. II [Facsimile]. New York: Società Libraria Italiana, 1916.At 471 pages, this Italian-English dictionary, Volume 1, is immediately followed by a Volume 2, an English-Italian one, though called "Modern…
Il Carroccio (The Italian Review): rivista di coltura propaganda e difesa italiana in America, Anno 5 [Facsimile]. New York: Il Carroccio Publishing Co., 1919. See general entry for Il Carroccio for its history and place in Italian American publishing.
Diario di una piccola profuga friulana: episodi dell'invasione del Veneto, 1917 [Diary of a little Friulian refugee: episodes in the invasion of the Veneto, 1917]. New York: Il Carroccio, 1919.This "diario," with both dated and undated entries in November 1917 through the same month in 1918, is a memoir of Maria Luisa Francesconi, a refugee…
Raccolta di brindisi per ogni occasione in dialetto siciliano [Collection of toasts for every occasion in Sicilian dialect] [Facsimile]. New York: Società Libraria Italiana - Italian Book Company, 1916.With a publication date of 1916, this work appears to have preceded the enormously popular 1917 Raccolta di discorsi per ogni occasione; Brindisi ed…
Lu ciucciu. Poema in dialetto calabrese [The Donkey: poem in Calabrese dialect]. New York: Tipografia Sisca & Sons, 1913.The only known book-length publication of Alessandro and Marziale Sisca's father, Francesco Sisca, or of the publisher or printer that bore their…
Militarismo e miseria: dramma in 3 atti [Militarism and Misery: drama in three acts]. Brooklyn: Tip. Guerriero, 1916.The action of this anti-war play unfolds in a little town in northern Italy during the "giornate rosse [Red Days]" of June 1914. The play was…
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),…
Spose di guerra: dramma in un atto [War Brides: drama in one act]. New York: Casa ed. "Il Martello", [1915].This feminist, anti-war play is the best known work of socialist and suffragette Wentworth (b. 1872 - d. 1942); it's a topic that would have appealed…
La Russia in fiamme [Russia in Flames]. New York: Casa Editrice "I Giovani", 1919.The subject of La Russia in fiamme is one Vacirca knew well from his interviews (while a senator in Italy) with Lenin and Trotsky: the Russian…
Il processo muto di Sacramento, Cal. The Silent Trial of Sacramento, Cal. Brooklyn: Ed. a cura del Libreria del Lavoratori Industriali del Mondo, [1919].This "silent" trial was part of a "frame-up," as author Jacopo Tori says. Before the "famous bombing" of July 1916, the Chamber of Commerce of San…
Il Carroccio (The Italian Review): rivista di coltura propaganda e difesa italiana in America, Anno I, Vol. II, Nos. 7-12. New York: Il Carroccio Publishing Co., Agosto [August] - Dicembre [December] 1915. While it would appear that this second volume should contain six issues - July through December - this volume only contains five issues, beginning…
Il Carroccio (The Italian Review): rivista di coltura propaganda e difesa italiana in America, Vol. 12, No. 3. New York: Il Carroccio Publishing Co., September 1920.See both the description in the 1915 volume below (Il Carroccio, Anno 1, Vol. 2, Nos. 7-12 - Agosto [August] - Dicembre [December] 1915) and in the…
Il Carroccio (The Italian Review): rivista di coltura propaganda e difesa italiana in America, Vol. 9, No. 6. New York: Il Carroccio Publishing Co., Giugno [June] 1919. See both the description in the 1915 volume below (Il Carroccio, Anno 1, Vol. 2, Nos. 7-12 - Agosto [August] - Dicembre [December] 1915) and in the…
Raccolta di discorsi per ogni occasione; Brindisi ed augurii [Collected Speeches for Every Occasion; Toasts and Greetings]. New York: Società Libraria Italiana, 1917.The Collection boasts two quite different editions of this popular work (to judge from the high survival rate reflected in the frequent availability…
Raccolta di discorsi per ogni occasione; Brindisi ed augurii [Collected Speeches for Every Occasion; Toasts and Greetings]. New York: Società Libraria Italiana, [1920's]This is Copy 2: Rome printing: Each of these two not quite identical editions — one printed in Rome and in New York purportedly both in 1917, but for…
Guardia Rossa: il terrore bianco in America [Red Guard: the white terror of America], No. 4. New York: A cura della Libreria Rossa, 1 Maggio [May] 1920.This magazine by Carlo Tresca did not have a terribly long run, especially compared to his signature work, Il Martello, q.v. I do not know in what…