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La Follia di New York [The New York Folly]. New York: Marziale Sisca; The Italian National Magazine Company, 1935-1977.The Collection includes only a few issues of this long-lived important literary and political magazine:La Follia di New York, Vol. XXXXIII, No. 1 -…
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…
Raccolta di discorsi per ogni occasione; Brindisi ed augurii [Collected Speeches for Every Occasion; Toasts and Greetings]. New York: Società Libraria Italiana, 1917.The Collection boasts two quite different editions of this popular work (to judge from the high survival rate reflected in the frequent availability…
Raccolta di discorsi per ogni occasione; Brindisi ed augurii [Collected Speeches for Every Occasion; Toasts and Greetings]. New York: Società Libraria Italiana, [1920's]This is Copy 2: Rome printing: Each of these two not quite identical editions — one printed in Rome and in New York purportedly both in 1917, but for…
Lu sonnu di Monsignuri X: poimettu in lingua siciliana [The Sonnets of Monsignor X: Short Poem in Sicilian]. Brooklyn: Tip. Ital. del Rinascimento, 1912.Dedicated to Riccardo Cordiferro. Pucciu (b. Italy, 1876; d. New York, 1927), or Puccio, was a sculptor and carver, with a studio in Brooklyn, as well…
Il prete attraverso la storia: conferenza di Riccardo Cordiferro [The Priest through History: lecture by Riccardo Cordiferro]. Barre: Edito a cura del Circolo di Studi Sociali, [1915].Dedicated to Miss Alice Griffith and Elizabeth Ash; 27 photo illustrations printed in part "with the kind permission of Mr Lorenzo Sosso," and in part…
Il prisco cavaliere [The Old Horseman]. New York: F. Sparacino; "La Follia di New York," 1924.This copy inscribed by author to the writer Anna Lannutti in 1933, like La vendetta. This copy lacks covers or a title page. This work tells a story…
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."
Ermete Novelli: Conferenza letta la sera del 27 Aprile 1919 alla "Irish Federation Hall" di New York per l'inaugurazione del "Circolo Filodrammatica Ermete Novelli" [Ermete Novelli: lecture read the evening of 27 April 1919 at "Irish Federation Hall" of New York for the opening of the "Philodrammatic Circle of Ermete Novelli."] New York: Manhattan Printing Co., 1919.As the title of this work explains, this talk was given by Cordiferro at the opening of the Philodrammatic Circle of Ermete Novelli.Ermete Novelli was…
Ode alla Calabria [Ode to Calabria].Buenos Aires: Casa ed. "La Voce dei Calabresi," 1933.With a translation (from Calabrese into Italian) by F. Greco, this recounts an evening soiree given in honor of Cordiferro by his friends from Acri…
Ode alla Calabria [Ode to Calabria]. Buenos Aires: Casa ed. "La Voce dei Calabresi," 1933.This work, published by the book arm of the Italian-language Argentinian newspaper, La Voce dei Calabresi, commemorates and reflects a literary soiree…
Core'ngrato: canzone napoletana [Ungrateful Heart: Neapolitan Song]. Milano: Ed. Ricordi, 1947.Note "versi di R. Cordiferro" in interior; "trascrizione per fisarmonica di Luigi Oreste Anzaghi [transciption for accordion by Luigi Oreste Anzaghi]"…
Caricatures in four parts | Caricature in quattro parti. New York: La Follia di New York - Marziale Sisca, 1908.This is the rare first edition of a series of editions of this popular collection of caricatures drawn by the great Neapolitan tenor, Enrico Caruso…
Sonata elegiaca: dramma [Elegiac Sonata: Drama]. Brooklyn: Tartamella & Co., 1921.Ludovico (really Michele, but he took the name of his deceased brother after the latter's death) Caminita (b. Palermo, 1878 - d. New York 1943?) had…