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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 portrait. Fierro had been killed by Frank Moffer (real name Moddifori) during a clash in Astoria, Queens,…
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 include mostly anodyne subjects, like "Holy Thursday," "Goodness," "The Book" - "if good, is your…
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 his sub rosa return to America some time after his deportation in 1919. However, this work was…
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 Sartin, editing L'Adunata dei Refrattari under that name until its demise in 1971. (Schiavina died in…
Discorso radiofonico in Italiano sulla campagna elletorale: domenica, 23 ottobre [Radio Speech in Italian on the electoral campaign of Sunday, October 23]. The Bronx: Il Partito Comunista della Contea del Bronx, [1938].
Nunzio was the pseudonym of Mike Salerno, who edited L'Unita Operai, a Communist newspaper.It is curious to me that there was a Bronx County chapter of the Italian Communist Party in America, rather than just, say, a New York City chapter.Note that…
Gabriele D'Annunzio: nella vita e nell'arte [Gabriele D'Annunzio: in Life and in Art]. New York: Cocce Bros., 1938.
This is a lengthy essay by Riccardo Cordiferro on perhaps the then most celebrated political, journalistic and literary figure of Italy, who was also known for the torrid love affair he carried on with actress Eleonora Duse. D’Annunzio had a…
Gente lontana [Faraway People]. Milano: Edizioni Medici Domus, 1938.
A novel of Italian American life by this immigrant in 1923 who was a contributor to the newspapers Il Progresso and the Italian Mattino di Napoli and Milanese Il Corriere della Sera, according to Flamma's Italiani di America. Corrado Altavilla was…
Guida degli Stati Uniti con particolare riferimento alla opera svoltavi dagli italiani [Guide to the United States with particular reference to the works carried out by Italians]. New York: The Vigo Press, 1937.
Giovanni Schiavo, a self-taught historian, brought out many volumes of his Italian-American Who's Who, in English (unlike Flamma), from the late 1930s through as late as the 1960s. This Italian language guidebook was a departure from his usual…
Il Bolscevismo: Che cosa è? [Bolshevism: what is it?]. [Detroit: Libreria Autonoma,] 1940.
This work is in the series of this publisher known as Problemi Attuali [Current Problems] - Numero 2. The author, an anarchist editor, activist and polemicist, was known for his disputes with individualists. He contributed to many anarchist…
Insurrezione e rivoluzione [Insurrection and Revolution]. Detroit: Libreria Autonoma, 1932.
This work was issued in the series "Problemi Attuali [Current Problems]," unnumbered, which series also includes as no. 2 the same author's Il Bolscevismo: Che cosa è?; also, see Damiani's La bottega for same publisher, a bookstore, Libreria…
Italiani di America: Enciclopedia Biografica [Italians in America: Biographical Encyclopedia]. New York: Cocce Brothers, 1936.
Flamma (b. Cattomosetta, Sicily, 1882; d. New York, 1961) first emigrated to the United States in 1909. During the First World War, he was a volunteer with the American army. He lived in Chicago, where he worked as secretary of the Italian Chamber of…
Italiani in America [Italians in America]. Milano: Fratelli Treves Editori, 1937.
Ruggiero (b. Grottole 1878 - d. Grassano 1959) was an Italian journalist who had taken a degree in surgery in Italy. He was a socialist in Naples, then took refuge from the police in an anarchist group.At the age of 29, in 1907, he emigrated to the…
L'urto di due mondi: poemetto [The Collision of Two Worlds: a short poem]. [n.p.]: [n.p.], 1938.
Stamped on the title page - bare of any printed text except "L'Urto di due mondi" without "poemetto" much less author Zavattero's name - is "Libreria SOCIALE Italiana, Giuseppe Popolizio E Co., 232 East 123rd ST., New York, N.Y." That the bookstore…
Madre: dramma in 4 atti [Mothers: drama in 4 acts]. Chicago: Italian Labor Publishig [sic] Co, 1931.
First produced in New York on April 19, 1931, at the Civic Repertory Theatre, Madre remains one of the best-known anti-fascist plays written and produced in America by Italians. It is discussed at some length by historian Marcella Bencivenni in…
Mussolini en chemise [Mussolini in a Nightshirt]. Paris: Editions Rieder, 1932.
This is the French translation of Mussolini in camicia, a 1927 publication in Italian in New York, q.v., that was known and admired enough to receive this French translation, and subsequently, translations into Dutch (Mussolini in zijn hemd, 1933),…
Mussolini in zijn hemd [Mussolini in a Nightshirt]. Amsterdam: N.V. De Arbeiderspers, [1933].
Anyone wondering why the collection would include a book printed in Dutch will want to consult the main entry for the first Italian publication, in New York, of Armando Borghi's Mussolini in camicia.This is the Dutch translation of that work: shortly…
Viva l'anarchia! [Hooray for Anarchy!] Newark: Cronaca Sovversiva, [1931].
Three-panel folded keepsake from the Cronaca Sovversiva, on heavy stock, enunciating the principles of how long anarchism will have to exist - so long as all the injustices of the world remain. Luigi Galleani was one of the anarchist movement’s most…
Sotto il segno del littorio I: La genesi del fascismo [Under the Sign of the Lictors I: The origin of fascism]. Chicago: Libreria Sociale, 1933.
The stunning front and back covers of Sotto il segno were illustrated by Fort Velona (b. Calabria, 1893 - d. New York, 1965), a socialist, labor organizer as well as cartoonist, who became best known for his anti-fascist cartoons, reproduced widely…
America amara [Bitter America]. Firenze: Sansoni, 1940.
Cecchi was a literary and arts critic and writer, born in Firenze, who worked there and in Rome. He was a friend both of Giovanni Pappini, philosopher and writer, and of Giovanni Gentile, the "philosopher of fascism." Durante notes that Cecchi was…
Attorno ad una vita [About a Life]. Newark: Biblioteca de l'Adunata dei Refrattari, 1940.
This is a short biography by Damiani of Niccolò Converti , an anarchist writer who published, among other works, Repubblica ed anarchia (Tunisia, 1889), which Damiani mentions. Born in 1855 or, according to Damiani, 1858 in Cosenza (Calabria),…
Caduti per noi, caduti per voi: raccolta di poesie di Angelica Balabanoff [Fallen for Us, Fallen for You: a Collection of Poetry of Angelica Balabanoff]. New York: Edizioni "La Fiaccola," [1935].
Unlike Tears, this collection of Balabanoff's poetry contains only poetry in Italian. It is dedicated "To the victims of Fascism, to the Martyrs for Liberty," named in the prefatory remarks by "gli incaricati" (those in charge). The referenced…
Carlo Marx e Bacunin in Spagna [Karl Marx and Bakunin in Spain]. Newark: Biblioteca de L'Adunata dei Refrattari, 1939.
Mikhail Bakunin (or "Bacunin" in Italian) was one of the leading theorists of anarchism, a contemporary of Marx who split from Marx after the first International. Bakunin was thus a hero to the early Italian anarchists, including Malatesta, Galleani,…
Come i falchi: bozzetto sociale in due atti [Like Hawks: dramatic scenes in two acts]. Philadelphia: Ed. a cura del Circolo d'Emancipazione Sociale, 1939.
The cover has a variant (from the title page) of the title of the work, namely, Come i falchi: Scene dramattiche in due atti.Postiglione (b. 1893 L'Aquila; d. 1924 L'Aquila) left Italy in 1910, embarking at Le Havre for New York, whence he went to…
Contro gli intrighi massonici nel campo rivoluzionario [Against Massonic Plots in the Revolutionary Battlefield]. Newark: I gruppi anarchici del antracite, 1939.
This is a collection of essays by Camillo Berneri and Armando Borghi. Berneri was an Italian professor of philosophy, anarchist militant, propagandist and theorist. Along with Carlo Rosselli and Mario Angeloni, he organized anti-fascist militiamen in…
Directory of Italian-Americans in Commerce and Professions-1937. Chicago: Continental Press, 1937.
First Edition [stated]; ex-libris copy (The Free Library of Philadelphia). Detailed directory by State and major City. Promises a bigger and better 1938 such Directory, but I have not found evidence that one was in fact published.