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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…
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),…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Il prete attraverso la storia: conferenza di Riccardo Cordiferro [The Priest through History: lecture by Riccardo Cordiferro]. Barre: Edito a cura del Circolo di Studi Sociali, [1915].Dedicated to Miss Alice Griffith and Elizabeth Ash; 27 photo illustrations printed in part "with the kind permission of Mr Lorenzo Sosso," and in part…
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…
L'I.W.W.: la sua storia, struttura e metodi [The I.W.W.: its History, Structure and Methods]. Brooklyn: Libreria Ed. Del Lavoratori Industriali del Mondo, [c. 1919].Like Che cosa è l’I.W.W.?, this work and L'I.W.W. nella teoria e nella pratica of Justus Ebert three years later, in Chicago, q.v., are translations…
La regina Giovanna: emozionante romanzo storico napoletano [Queen Giovanna: stirring Neapolitan historical novel]. New York: Società Libraria Italiana, [1911?]A good example of an import by the Italian Book Company; the only copies are in Italian libraries. Book ads appear on the verso of the title page for…
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…
Le teorie di Cesare Lombroso: spiegate agli operai [The Theories of Cesare Lombroso, explained for workers]. Chicago: Edito a cura della "LIBRERIA SOCIALE", 1920.The "secondo migliaio [second thousand]" noted on the cover and title page suggest this was a popular work. Specific issues discussed, after a…
Le variazioni [Changes]. New York: Il Carroccio Publ. Co., 1916.This is the rare "secondo impressione/ secondo migliaio" in books published by Italians. Note that though published by Il Carroccio, the book was…
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…
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…
Memorandum coloniale ossia sintesi storica di osservazioni e fatti che diano un'idea generale della vita coloniale degli italiani nel Nord America con monografia illustrativa della colonia di Philadelphia [Colonial Memorandum, or Historical Synthesis of Observations & facts which give a general idea of the colonial life of Italians in North America with an illustrated monograph of the colony of Philadelphia]. Philadelphia: "La Forbice", 1911.This is stated to be second volume; no copy of this second volume found in any library. The first volume was published by "Mastro Paolo" in 1910-1912,…
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…
Per le nuove generazioni [For the New Generations]. New York: Nicoletti Bros Press, 1911.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…
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…
Se si farà la rivoluzione in Italia, si morrà di fame? [Will We Die of Hunger if There's a Revolution in Italy?]. New York: Casa ed. Libreria Rossa, [c. 1921].This work is taken from Umanità Nova, a Milanese leftist newspaper that was founded in 1920, and shut down by the fascists in 1922. "Libreria Rossa"…
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…
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…
Unionismo industriale e trade-unionismo: può un socialista e industrialista far parte dell'A.F. of L.?: resoconto stenografico del contradittorio tra [Ettor] and [Caroti] tenutosi a New York il 26 Marzo 1911 [Industrial Unionism and Trade Unionism: Can a socialist and industrialist belong to the A[merican] F[ederation] of L[abor]? Stenographic account of the debate between Joseph J. Ettor and Arthur Caroti held in New York on the 26th of March 1911]. Chicago: I.W.W., [1911].In the year following this “debate” between the revolutionary trade unions of the I.W.W. (and the Federazione) and the reformist A.F. of L., Joseph…
Uno storico processo di classe: I precedenti e lo svolgimento del processo dell'I.W.W. a Chicago, Illinois [An Historic Class Trial: the records and the development of the trial of the I.W.W. in Chicago]. [Chicago]: [Libreria Ed. I.W.W.], [1919].The title on the cover also states, “Giustizia Capitalista” (Capitalist Justice), not present on title page. This work recounts the mass trial of…
I sotterranei di New York [The Undergrounds of New York]. New York: Società Libraria Italiana, 1915.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…