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Mussolini in camicia [Mussolini in a Nightshirt]. Napoli: Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane, 1961.See the lengthy history of this work in the description of the 1927 Edizione Libertarie edition published in Italian in New York in order to…
Enrico Malatesta. New York: Il Martello, 1922.At 352 pages, this edition of Nettlau's biography of Malatesta - published in the same year (1922) and by the same publisher (Il Martello) - is 48…
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…
Mussolini: storia d'un cadavere [Mussolini: history of a cadaver]. New York: La Strada Publishing Co., 1942.Vacirca’s anti-fascist biography of Mussolini covers the period from his growing up in poverty to his rise to “Il Duce” in 1925 and emperor in 1936.…
Luigi Palma di Cesnola e il Metropolitan Museum of Art di New York [Luigi Palma di Cesnola and the Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York]. New York: [n.p.], 1898.This copy, with an inscription to “the most noble Madam Contessa Valdrighi” dated June 7, 1899, is a hagiography of the Torinese count, Palma di…
Andrea Ragusa: editore-libraio italiano a New York dal 1931 al 1974 [Andrea Ragusa: publisher/bookseller in New York from 1931 to 1974]. Firenze: Ed. Polistampa, 2004.Introduction by Paolo Bagnoli; this copy has a label stuck on back cover: S.F. Vanni-Publishers & Booksellers, 30 W 12 St., NYC. Author Ragusa was…
Errico Malatesta. New York: Casa ed. "Il Martello", [1922].Nettlau (b. Neuwaldegg [Vienna], 1865; d. Amsterdam, 1944) was a German anarchist - indeed, according to Paul Avrich, Nettlau was the foremost…
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…
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…
La prima santa d'America: vita di Madre Cabrini [The First Saint in America: life of Mother Cabrini]. Brooklyn: Casa Ed. Fortuna Publishing, 1944.La prima santa d’America reflects the intense pride in Mother Cabrini that continued to exist nearly thirty years after her death. Although she was…
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…
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…
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)…
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.…
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…
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)…
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…
Rodolfo Valentino: avventure amorose [Rodolfo Valentino: amorous adventures]. New York: Italian Book Company, 1944.Published in the same year as the autobiography of Casanova, q.v., the advertisement for this work (on the back cover of the Casanova) noted not only…
Mussolini. New York: Italy Publishing Co., 1923.Bound in one volume (with Guido Podrecca's Il fascismo, q.v.), not separately paginated. This, the first (pp. 1- 174) of two works bound together, is…
In memoria della Rev.ma Francesca Saverio Cabrini: Fondatrice e Superiora Generale delle missionarie del S. Cuore del Gesù, volata al cielo in Chicago il 22 Dicembre 1917 [In memory of the most Reverend Francesca Saverio Cabrini: Foundress and Superior General of the missions of San Cuore del Gesù, ascended into heaven in Chicago on the 22d of December, 1917]. [n.p.]: A. Bernasconi, [1918].Mother Cabrini, later the first U.S citizen canonized by the Church (predicted here), became Saint Cabrini. She founded the Sacred Heart Missionary…
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…