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Advanced Italian Lessons. New York: Italian Book Company New York, 1924 (1912).This is a copy of the Third Edition of this work, 1924, first published, in 1912. Arbib-Costa (b. Livorno, 1882; active, New York, 1900–1930),…
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…
Italian Lessons. New York: Italian Book Company New York, 1914 [copyright].Fifth Edition. It seems likely that this Fifth, and the Seventh Edition, q.v., date from sometime in the 1920s, but there is no evidence in the book…
Italian Lessons. New York: Italian Book Company New York, 1914 [copyright]."Seventh Edition."It would not be until an Eighth edition in 1933, q.v. - 24 years after the original 1909 publication - that the reader would be…
Italian Lessons. New York: Italian Book Company, 1933.Eighth Edition. Arbib-Costa (b. Livorno, 1882; active, New York, 1900–1930), professor of romance languages at the College of the City of New York,…
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].See discussion, generally, of the 1914 edition of this work. And see the additional discussion in the description of what appears to be an identical…
Nuovissima Grammatica Accelerata: Italiana-Inglese ed Enciclopedia Popolare con Pronunzia. Divisa in 11 Parti [Newest Accelerated Italian-English Grammar and Popular Encyclopedia with pronunciation [guide]. Divided into 11 Parts]. New York: Italian Book Co., [1944].See a complete description of this work in the entry for the 1914 edition. We can date this edition approximately at 1944 because the last date in…
Nuovissima Grammatica Accelerata: Italiana-Inglese ed Enciclopedia Popolare con Pronunzia. Divisa in 11 Parti [Newest Accelerated Italian-English Grammar and Popular Encyclopedia with pronunciation [guide]. Divided into 11 Parts]. New York: Italian Book Co., [1944].See a complete description of this work in that of the 1914 edition. We can date this edition approximately at 1944 because the last date in American…
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…
La leggenda del Piave [The Legend of the Piave]. New York: Italian Book Company, 1918.Note the copyright by the Italian Book Company both on the cover and at the bottom of the first page of this sheet music: "Copyright 1918 by the…
Nix il figlio dell'Austriaco [Nix, the Austrian's Son][Facsimile]. New York: Italian Book Company, 1920.This is a complicated story of love and espionage behind the front line during the Great War, according to Durante.
La guerra italo-austriaca 1915-1919 [The Italian-Austrian War, 1915-1919]. New York: Società Libraria Italiana, 1919.Pallavicini (b. Torino (according to Flamma) or Milan (according to Schiavo) as Pallavicini-Pirovano, 1886; d. San Francisco, 1938) began his American…
Mastro Bertuchello e il tesoro dei ventimiglia [Master Bertuchello and the Treasure of the 20,000]. Milano: Casa ed. "La Madonnina" di Milano, 1950.This is an Italian Book Company import: underneath the name of the Casa ed. "La Madonnina," the Milanese publisher on the cover, is the notice that…
Quando l'amore bussa…operetta in tre atti [When Love Comes Knocking. . . operetta in three acts]. Napoli: Casa Ed. Gennarelli, 1921.This import of an operetta (with a book by Alfredo Napolitano, music by Oscar Cattedra) is itself dated and copyrighted 1922, a year after the 1921…
John Huss the Veracious. New York: Italian Book Co., 1939.The book opens with an adulatory preface by "Italian Book Co.," probably De Martino himself. This is one of the relatively few works published by the…
Bolocchi e profumi: tango [Playthings and Fragrances: tango]. Napoli: Casa ed. Musicale Tip.-Lit. F. De Luca [imported by Italian Book Co.], 1929.This sheet music, like much of this genre imported by the Italian Book Company from Italy, was published in Italy by Casa ed. Musicale Tip.-Lit. F. De…
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…
The Italian Cook Book: the Art of Eating Well. New York: Italian Book Co., 1919.This is the rare Italian Book Company book in English (Mussolini's biography of Jan Hus is the other in the Collection). This cook book - typical in…
Vita, gesta e amori di Salvatore Giuliano: compilata da U[mberto] F[ragasso] [Life, Deeds and Loves of Salvatore Giuliano: compiled by U[mberto] F[ragasso].] New York: Italian Book Company, 1951.This is the most recently dated imprint (1951) of the Italian Book Company in the collection. Giuliano (b. 1922, killed 1950) was the 20th c. Sicilian…
Il bandito pugliese Nicola Morra, vita ed avventure, riordinate ed ampliate da A. De Martino [Nicola Morra: Bandit from Puglia. Life and adventures, reordered and expanded by A. De Martino] [Facsimile]. New York: Società Libraria Italiana, 1914.In 1896, Pasquale Ardito published in Italy Le avventure di Nicola Morra, ex bandito pugliese. There is no indication (at least in this facsimile)…
Tripoli italiana: La guerra italo-turca: le nostre prime vittorie- descrizioni ed appunti reordinati da Antonio De Martino [Italian Tripoli: the Italo-Turkish War: Our First Victories. Descriptions and notes reordered by Antonio De Martino]. New York: Società Libraria Italiana, 1911.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…
Segretario amoroso italiano-inglese [Romantic Secretary (Italian-English)]. New York: Italian Book Company, 1945.The "secretary" like this one, filled with "model" business and social letters in both Italian and English, was surely a best seller for the Italian…
Casanova: memorie d'avventure amorose | scritte da lui stesso | e riordinate da | Franco Bello [Casanova: memoirs of amorous adventures]. New York: Italian Book Company, 1944.The fascination of many with the “avventure amorose” of one of the great pleasure seekers and serial seducers (of the wives and daughters of important…
L'assassinio della contessa Trigona: ovvero, il delitto del tenente Paternò, romanzo intimo-contemporaneo passionale, illustrated [The Assassination of the Contessa Trigona: or, The Crime of Lieutenant Paternò, Intimate-Contemporary Passionate Novel][Facsimile]. New York: Italian Book Company, 1912.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…
Il libro delle erbe: medicinali e magiche di A. De Martino e Umberto Fragasso, compilato su varie opere di botanica medica [Illustrated Herbarium. Medicines and Magic Potions Compiled by A. De Martino and Umberto Fragasso, based on Various Works of Botanical Medicine]. New York: Italian Book Company, 1946.This work fairly calls De Martino and Fragasso, both in subtitle and author listing, the authors by virtue of being "compilers" (from other sources)…