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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,…
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)…
Romanzetto storico contemporaneo intitolato Amor focoso, ossia avventure di un ex-brigante calabrese in America [Contemporary Historical Romance entitled Smoldering 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…
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.)("subject matter of the chapters") prior to the full text; the story takes place 400 years ago, and…
Monolandia: il paese dove la libertà fu sepolta [Monolandia: the Country where Liberty was Buried]. [Bronx]: [n.p.], [n.d.]Self-published; printed from typescript (and perfect bound) by the anarchist-individualist author, who lived in the U.S. illegally from 1924 until his…
Juvenilia: Italian and English Poems. New York: Saitta Press Co., 1928.This was a gift from the author's son, also Pellegrino D'Acierno, distinguished literary scholar and professor at Hofstra U., now retired.
Il tallone di ferro [Heel of Iron]. San Francisco: Gene's Print Shop. 1939.This copy is inscribed by Crespi "to Liberto Nathan"; on verso of title page, the inscription continues "A Liberto Nathan per il suo buon successo --…