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La cucina casareccia napoletana pei golosi e buongustai [Neapolitan Homecooking for Gourmands and Gourmets]. New York: Italian Book Company, 194? [sic]
Printed in Raimondi, Italy, at what seems to be a school for the deaf and mute (Scuola Tip. Sordomuti); an E. Rossi (bookstore and general emporium of things Italian, then located at 191 Grand St.) stamp on title page, just above the publisher's…
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 the reason explained below, this Rome publication must date from 1923 or later. It appears from…
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 for purchase of this work).Copy 1: the New York printing, this edition: Each of these two not quite…
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.…
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,…
Il Messaggero della Salute: rivista mensile d'igiene, di terapia fisio-psichica e di cultura eclettica [The Messenger of Health: a monthly review of hygiene, of physico-psychiatric therapy, and of eclectic culture], Anno 8, No. 78. Chicago: Italian Labor Publishing Co., Febbraio [February] 1926.
Just when you thought you could put all Italian American newspapers or magazines into "boxes" labelled one of the following, namely, (1) "Bourgeois- Prominente Class," (2) "Anarchist, socialist, et al., and anti-fascist", or (3) "Fascist," - that…