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Ultra: strenna commemorativa del XV anniversario della fondazione della Italian Dressmakers Union, Local 89, I.L.G.W.U. [Extremist: commemorative gift of the XV anniversary of the founding of the Italian Dressmakers Union, Local 89, I.L.G.W.U.]Luigi Antonini, head of Local 89, inscribed this copy; stunning artwork throughout In one of the photos, above, you see a paean in English to labor…
Sprazzi di luce: pennelate di propaganda anticlericale. New York: [n.p.], 1940.While the publisher is not listed, as such, the recto of the final leaf displays an advertisement for Il Proletario, published by the Federazione…
Scritti politici e letterarii: raccolti ed ordinati da Giovanni Di Gregorio [Political and Literary Writings: gathered and ordered by Giovanni di Gregorio]. New York: Venanzi Memorial Committee, 1921.This compilation of the writings of Flavio Venanzi (b. Roma, 1882; d. New York, 1920) has a book cover design by sculptor Onorio Ruotolo (q.v.), a…
Chi uccise Carlo Tresca? [Who Killed Carlo Tresca?] New York: Tresca Memorial Committee, [1947].The cover of this pamphlet (as well as the English language version, in English) notes “Con prefazioni di Arturo Giovannitti e John Dos Passos.” In…
La vigilia: dramma in tre atti [On the Eve: drama in three acts]. East Boston: Edizione Del Gruppo Autonomo, 1917.La vigilia is the first Italian translation “by A.M.G.” — who would be known by readers to be Arturo M. Giovannitti — of Leopold Kampf’s popular play…
Manet Immota Fides: Omaggio all memoria imperitura di Carlo Tresca [Our Faith Remains Unshaken: In Tribute to the Everlasting Memory of Carlo Tresca]. New York: Il Martello (Gruppo Carlo Tresca), 1943.Created in the wake of his assassination in Union Square, this work includes essays honoring Tresca by James T. Farrell, John Dos Passos, Roger…
Quando canta il gallo [When the Rooster Crows]. Chicago: E. Clemente & Sons, 1957.This copy was inscribed by Arturo Giovannitti in January 1958, one year before his death, to his good friend, Onorio Ruotolo and his wife, Lucia.…
Pagine scelte [Selected Works]. Brooklyn Libreria dell'I.W.W., 1930.This work contains Giovannitti’s speech (entitled “Davanti ai Giurati di Salem, Massachusetts” [Before the Jurors of Salem, Mass.]) in 1912 to the…
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…