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La crisi sociale da Cristo a Mussolini [The Social Crisis from Christ to Mussolini]. New York: Cocce Brothers, 1933.
In this 24-page pamphlet, Lisanti praises fascism, though noting its differences from Christianity. Lisanti declares that fascism has substituted for Christ’s exhortation to “Love your neighbor as you love yourself,” the “political imperative of…
Il diavolo biondo [The Blond Devil][Facsimile]. New York: Nicoletti Bros Press, 1916.
Stanco’s eloquence and pessimism are amply illustrated in Il diavolo biondo. Martino Marazzi's Voices of Italian America: a History of Early Italian American Literature with a Critical Anthology (Madison, 2004) contains an excerpt from this work in…
Zarathustra, Anno 2, No. 9. New York, 15 Marzo [March] 1926.
"Parla una volta al mese a tutti di tutto"Copies of this magazine are one of the "holy grails" of Italian American publishing: of Zarathustra, Francesco Durante noted it was a "review of high cultural profile, oriented to the left, of which however,…
Zarathustra, Anno 2, No. 8. New York, 15 Febbraio [February] 1926.
"Parla una volta al mese a tutti di tutto"Copies of this magazine are one of the "holy grails" of Italian American publishing: of Zarathustra, Francesco Durante noted it was a "review of high cultural profile, oriented to the left, of which however,…
Zarathustra, Anno 2, No. 12. New York, 15 Giugno [June] 1926.
"Parla una volta al mese a tutti di tutto"Copies of this magazine are one of the "holy grails" of Italian American publishing: of Zarathustra, Francesco Durante noted it was a "review of high cultural profile, oriented to the left, of which however,…
Zarathustra, Anno 2, No. 11. New York, 15 Maggio [May] 1926.
"Parla una volta al mese a tutti di tutto"Copies of this magazine are one of the "holy grails" of Italian American publishing: of Zarathustra, Francesco Durante noted it was a "review of high cultural profile, oriented to the left, of which however,…
Zarathustra, Anno 1, No. 6. New York, 15 Decembre [December] 1925.
"Parla una volta al mese a tutti di tutto"Copies of this magazine are one of the "holy grails" of Italian American publishing: of Zarathustra, Francesco Durante noted it was a "review of high cultural profile, oriented to the left, of which however,…
Zarathustra, Anno 1, No. 5. New York, 15 Novembre [November] 1925.
"Parla una volta al mese a tutti di tutto"Copies of this magazine are one of the "holy grails" of Italian American publishing: of Zarathustra, Francesco Durante noted it was a "review of high cultural profile, oriented to the left, of which however,…
Zarathustra, Anno 1, No. 4. New York, 15 Ottobre [October] 1925.
"Parla una volta al mese a tutti di tutto"Copies of this magazine are one of the "holy grails" of Italian American publishing: of Zarathustra, Francesco Durante noted it was a "review of high cultural profile, oriented to the left, of which however,…
Zarathustra, Anno 1, No. 3. New York, 15 Settembre [September] 1925.
"Parla una volta al mese a tutti di tutto"Copies of this magazine are one of the "holy grails" of Italian American publishing: of Zarathustra, Francesco Durante noted it was a "review of high cultural profile, oriented to the left, of which however,…
Zarathustra, Anno 1, No. 2. New York, 15 Agosto [August] 1925.
"Parla una volta al mese a tutti di tutto"Copies of this magazine are one of the "holy grails" of Italian American publishing: of Zarathustra, Francesco Durante noted it was a "review of high cultural profile, oriented to the left, of which however,…
Zarathustra, Anno 1, No. 1. New York, 15 Maggio [May] 1925.
Copies of this magazine are one of the "holy grails" of Italian American publishing: of Zarathustra, Francesco Durante noted it was a "review of high cultural profile, oriented to the left, of which however, there is no trace in bibliographies or…
Vita, gesta e amori di Salvatore Giuliano: compilata da U[mbeto] 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 "gentleman bandit" who was the subject of Mario Puzo's The Sicilian. On the outside and inside rear…
Vita e morte di Sacco e Vanzetti [Life and Death of Sacco and Vanzetti]. New York: Il Martello Publishing Co., 1928.
The original, published in English in 1927, by International Publishers, is also in the Collection. This, the most dramatic, galvanizing (including after their execution) and dispiriting historical event of the era involving Italian anarchists led to…
Un italiano in America [An Italian in America]. Milano: Treves, ed., 1892.
This is the very hard to find first edition of this important, astute observation of the personal and collective experience of Italian immigrants in America in the very early days - Rossi arrived in New York in 1880 - of the mass migration.Rossi (b.…
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…
Tre anni [1937-39] di lavoro in difesa degli immigrati italiani in America [Three Years [1937-39] of Work in Defense of Immigrant Italians in America]. New York: Comitato italiano per la difesa degli immigrati, 1940.
The leader of the Italian Committee for the Defense of Immigrants, Edward Corsi (b. Capestrano (L'Aquila) 1896 - d. New York 1965) immigrated to the U.S. in 1907 at the age of ten with his mother and step-father. A studious boy, he frequented Harlem…
The New Book of Caricatures by Enrico Caruso. New York: La Follia di New York - Marziale Sisca, 1965.
This later edition, the most commonly available one (dated 1965), lacks the biographical entry at the outset, the ads at the end, and most of the Italian-language material. However, it does contain Caruso’s letters in the Italian original,…
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 some ways of IBC publications, mostly imported, about home and hearth - is much sought after,…
Tennysoniane: "Nothing Will Die," "All Things Will Die". New York: Francesco Tocci, Ed., 1909.
A string-tied binding, like this one, and with deckled foredge, was an expensive way to produce books, and thus unusual in books published by Italians in the U.S. On the verso of the title page is "copyright 1909 by Prof. Giuseppe Cadicamo." Cadicamo…
Tears. New York: E. Laub Publishing Co., 1943.
Angelica Balabanoff (b. Ukraine 1878, d. Rome 1965) was a Russian Jewish–Italian communist and social democratic activist. She served as secretary of the Comintern and later became a political party leader in Italy.This poetry collection includes…
Strenna almanacco anno 1919 e catalogo generale della Libreria Banca Tocci [Free Almanac for the year 1919 and General Catalogue of the Banca Tocci Bookstore]. New York: Libreria Banca Tocci, 1919.
See my essay (on the site) Italian American Book Publishing and Book Selling, for a discussion of this work.C. Calvosa (of whom Durante says nothing) signed the introductory note. Francesco Tocci, perhaps deceased by 1919, was the nephew of the…
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 Socialista Italiana in New York. So it is possible, i fnot likely, that the federation also published…
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.…
Scugnizzo: poemetto napoletano [Street urchin: short Neapolitan poem]. New York: Coccè Press, [1924].
Inscribed to "Al poeta Armando Massa, con sincera e cordiale amici fa'a, con viva ammrazione, Riccardo Cordiferro, N.Y. 21 Giugno 1924."