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…
This copy bears a copyright date of 1905, in contrast to date on the cover of 1913 for printing, as well as 89 Centre Street address, rather than the earlier 79 Centre Street, thus suggesting that this is a later printing by Vincenzo Ciocia at a…
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…
A real life story: Vincenzo Paternò del Cugno, a Sicilian baron who was always short on money, killed his lover, the Countess Giulia, in Rome in March 1911, when she refused to give him any more money and broke off their extra-marital relationship.…
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 prominente newspaper owned and directed by Ettore Patrizi in San Francisco, L'Italia. The article was…
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 "main entry" hyperlinked at the end (1915-1932) for Il Carroccio's history and place in Italian…
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 "main entry" hyperlinked at the end (1915-1932) for Il Carroccio's history and place in Italian…
While it would appear that this second volume should contain six issues - July through December - this volume only contains five issues, beginning with August; the last issue (December) is a double issue, numbered 11-12. It is unclear if July was…
Please review the lengthy description of this work in this same first edition, second printing (1911-1912) for a detailed description of Pecorini's work. This appears to be one of two identical texts, identical editions, with the same cover,…
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 United States,” and reprinted in this edition - dated 1912 - by that same important early publishing…
This is one of two works by Braida, and in the same period, published by the Libreria Ed. dei Lavoratori industriali del Mondo, i.e., the I.W.W, and in the Collection. The other is Unionismo industriale, co-authored with Giovanni Baldazzi.
"New & Revised edition. " This "new and revised edition [was] printed from new plates." (From "new plates" is the very definition of a new edition.) This work is designed for the native English speaker eager to learn Italian.While no date other…
Bernardy was a pioneering journalist in Italy in the early 20th century, and published this work on social life in Italian America. Born in 1880 in Florence, daughter of a Savoyard Italian mother and the American consul to Florence, she wrote for the…
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 that publisher. De Gaudenzi's grammar was among the very first grammars composed in the Italian…
The title on the cover also states, “Giustizia Capitalista” (Capitalist Justice), not present on title page. This work recounts the mass trial of I.W.W. members from 1917–1918 in the I.W.W.’s hometown of Chicago, in which a total of 820 years of…
In rooting for Italy’s colonialist ventures (as he would root years later for Mussolini), the publisher Antonio De Martino lost no time: a state of war, as is noted early on in this work, had only just been declared by Italy against Turkey on…
In 1896, Pasquale Ardito published in Italy Le avventure di Nicola Morra, ex bandito pugliese. There is no indication (at least in this facsimile) that De Martino, who takes credit here for having "reordered" or "rearranged" as well as "enlarged" the…
Some years after Dramas, Flamma succeeded in getting Fiamme translated and published in English as Flames & Other Plays (New York, 1928). This volume consists of two works: the popular first-named play, originally written, performed, and…
Born in Modena in 1877, Forzato-Spezia emigrated with her husband to the U.S. in 1891, and settled in West Hoboken, NJ. She opened a bookstore there renowned for its large selection of booklets of socialist propaganda and social novels. By 1907, she…
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…
This novel is the 16th of 19 or 20 that Ciambelli authored over a long and productive career. Two of the others, La trovatella di Mulberry Street and I misteri di Mulberry Street (this latter in a facsimile copy only), are in the Collection. I have a…
Ciambelli (b. Lucca, 1862; d. New York, 1931) was the most celebrated and prodigious novelist — as many as eight novels of his were in print and for sale at the bookstore of Il Progresso Italo-Americano (advertisement, July 5, 1896) — as well as…
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…
Dedicated to Riccardo Cordiferro. Pucciu (b. Italy, 1876; d. New York, 1927), or Puccio, was a sculptor and carver, with a studio in Brooklyn, as well as an accomplished dialect poet who began to publish verses in the literary and political magazine,…