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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 American history in the last section of the work is dated then in the present: translated, it reads,…
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 1963 edition (with, as here, "revised by F. Tudisco" on the cover but not the title page). Mr.…
Alba Nuova: Rivista Mensile di Critica e di Pensiero (numero doppio) [New Dawn: Monthly Review of Criticism and Thought (Number 2)]. New York: Mario Rapisardi Literary Society, 1921.
Alba Nuova (1921-1924) was the official organ of the Federazione dei Lavoratori Italiani d'America, a section of the American Labor Alliance, formed on November 6, 1921 by members of the Federazione Socialista Italiana and the Italian section of the…
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 Book Company - Società Libraria Italiana: witness the variety of such works just by the IBC alone.…
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 war, as is noted early on in this work, had only just been declared by Italy against Turkey on…
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) that De Martino, who takes credit here for having "reordered" or "rearranged" as well as "enlarged" the…
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 di America: Enciclopedia Biografica Vol. III [Italians in America: Biographical Encyclopedia Vol. III]. New York: Cocce Brothers, 1949.
While this work calls itself "Volume III," it's really more a reprint of the original work from 13 years before but supplemented by additional names. Clearly, the original was successful enough that Flamma (or Cocce Press) thought it worthwhile to…
Fiorello LaGuardia. New York: Worthy Printing Company, Inc., 1934.
Published only a year after La Guardia was elected mayor of New York City, this work by Flamma is, for the first half, a dyspeptic (or dystopic) meditation on the vagaries of wealth, prosperity and our national illusion during the Depression. Only…
Dramas. New York: York Printing Co., 1909.
Flamma's signature is on the copyright page: "This edition is limited to One Thousand copies, each bearing Author's Autograph." One of his volumes of Dramas was issued in New York, in 1909, in a luxurious edition enriched by a letter (little more…
Fiamme: dramma in un atto; Memorie di un suicido: novella [Flames: Drama in One Act. Recollections of a Suicide]. New York: Nicoletti Bros. Editori, 1911.
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…
Errico Malatesta in 60 anni di lotte anarchiche: storia*critica*ricordi [Errico Malatesta in 60 Years of Anarchist Struggles: History, Criticism, Memories]. New York: Edizioni Sociali, 1933.
Preface by Sébastien Faure. That the story of the transnational work of a figure like Malatesta was written in Italian, published in New York, and printed in Paris by an Italian printer, Tipografia Sociali, is testimony to the international nature of…
Mussolini Red and Black. New York: Freie Arbeiter Stimme, 1938.
For a full description of this work and its significance, see the description of it in the entry for the 1927 edition (published in New York) of Mussolini in camicia, q.v. It took 11 years for Borghi's work to return in translation to New York, where…
Mussolini in camicia [Mussolini in a Nightshirt]. New York: Edizioni Libertarie, 1927.
Armando Borghi’s unflattering biography of Mussolini, Mussolini in camicia, was too dangerous (to author, publisher or printer) to be released in Italy: soon after Mussolini’s rise to power in 1922, publishing a work criticizing him or the Fascist…
Gli anarchici e le alleanze: conferenza … tenuta a sera del 12 Gennaio 1927 alla "Rand School" sotto gli auspici del gruppi: Volontà e South Brooklyn (con appendice di Luigi Fabbri) [Anarchists and Alliances: a Lecture Given on the Evening of January 12, 1927 at the Rand School under the auspices of the groups: Will and South Brooklyn]. New York: Circolo operaio di cultura sociale di New York, [1927].
The publication of the trasncript of an evening's lecture or, more so, a debate between speakers at a public meeting was not an unusual event, especially on the left.The Rand School of Social Science, founded in 1906 by adherents of the Socialist…
Regolamento della Grande Loggia dello stato di New York: approvato dalla Convenzione Straordinaria di New York del Giugno 1919 ed emendato e approvato dalla Grande Convenzione Ordinario di Amsterdam, N.Y., dell'Agosto 1922 [Regulations of the Grand Lodge of the State of New York; approved by the Extraordinary Convention of New York, June 1919 and amended and approved by the Grand Lodge at the Regular Convention of Amsterdam, NY, of August 1922]. New York: Il Carroccio Publ. Co., [1922].
Order Sons of Italy; Ordine Figli d'Italia in America.
Il mago delle Alpi; ossia l'anello incantato| allegoria storica| farsa, commedia, melodramma e tragedia nel gran teatro del mondo| per passatempo ed istruzione degli italiani in America [The Magician of the Alps, or The Enchanted Ring, Historical Farse, Comedy, Melodrama and Tragedy in the Great Theatre of the World, for the Recreation and Instruction of Italians in America][Facsimile]. New York: Copyright 1889, by Augusto Bassetti, [Right of Translation Reserved], 1889.
The work contains "argomenti dei capitoli" (4 pp.)("argument of the chapters") prior to the full text; the story takes place 400 years ago, and was designed to appeal to Italian immigrants' preference for the romantic and chivalric tales that were a…
Romanzetto storico contemporaneo intitolato Amor focoso, ossia avventure di un ex-brigante calabrese in America [Contemporary Historical Romance entitled Firey Love, or Adventures of an Ex-Bandit Calabrese in America][Facsimile]. New York: [Copyright 1886, by August Bassetti; Right of translation reserved], 1887.
In this novel, the author appears as a character who like the novel itself unabashedly promotes his two grammars (like this copy, a facsimile copy of one of which is in the collection) as designed to help the working class, untutored Italian…
Secondo libro del manuale per imparare la lingua inglese senza maestro. Contenente storiette amene ed il segretario spedito [Second Manual for Learning the English Language without a Teacher. Containing pleasant stories and a quick secretary] [Facsimile]. New York: [n.p.], 1886.
This second grammar by Bassetti followed hard on what he described in ads as the success of the first one. Designed especially for immigrant Italians, it contained worksheets and both correct spelling and phonetic spelling of English words to help…
L'ordine figli d'Italia in America. New York: Società Tipografica Italiana, 1925.
We have some biographical details about Aquilano, a free-lance journalist, from Flamma's Italiani di America (b. Chieti, 1885; d. New York?). He directed out of Milan the daily, and still one of today’s most popular Italian-language newspapers, Il…
Catalogo Illustrato della premiata fabbrica di armoniche: Baldoni, Bartoli & Co., 60 Mulberry Street, New-York, N.Y. [Illustrated Catalogue of a Prizewinning Accordion Factory: Baldoni, Bartoli & Co., 60 Mulberry Street, New York, NY]. Firenze: Tip. Valgiusti - Firenze, [1890s].
Accordions made by this Italian and American company - at this time based on Mulberry Street in Manhattan - continue to be sold by many dealers, and the Baldoni family still has some involvement, though not in New York. On the cover, on which is…
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 renowned for its large selection of booklets of socialist propaganda and social novels. By 1907, she…
Il vate etneo: conferenza tenuta a New York, in commemorazione di MARIO RAPISARDI, nell'Aula Magna del Normal College di Park Ave. sotto gli auspici del Circolo Italiano fra studentesse del medesimo Istituto [The Etnean Poet: lecture given in New York, in commemoration of MARIO RAPISARDI, in the Great Hall of the Normal College of Park Avenue under the auspices of the Circolo Italiano of the female students of that same Institute.] New York: Nicoletti Bros Press, 1914.
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…
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 Italian Book Company in English, presumably to reach a wider audience of Italian American readers…
Dio e patria: nel pensiero dei rinnegati. New York: [n.p.], [c. 1924-1925].
This work reproduces, first, the record of a debate on March 25, 1904 (and Mussolini’s preface thereto, dated July 1904), in Lausanne (Lossana), Switzerland between the then virulently anti-clerical young socialist Mussolini, already known for his…