Mastro Bertuchello e il tesoro dei ventimiglia [Master Bertuchello and the Treasure of the 20,000]. Milano: Casa ed. "La Madonnina" di Milano, 1950.

Mastro Bertuchello e il tesoro dei ventimiglia [Master Bertuchello and the Treasure of the 20,000]. Milano: Casa ed. "La Madonnina" di Milano, 1950.

This is an Italian Book Company import: underneath the name of the Casa ed. "La Madonnina," the Milanese publisher on the cover, is the notice that the Italian Book Company is "the only custodian [for this work] in the United States of North America." As I note elsewhere, the Italian Book Company was extremely protective of its legal rights as the sole importer from Italy of popular works of fiction and, especially, sheet music.

"William Galt," i.e., Luigi Natoli of Palermo, was one of the then contemporary Italian novelists (like Guido Bassi, author of a long-running serial, Sangue Siciliano  published both in Italy and in the U.S.) quite popular among Italian Americans, one whose works were either published in the U.S. or, as in this case, imported from Italy.

"William Galt"

[Luigi Natoli]

Casa ed. "La Madonnina" di Milano

1950

25.5 x 19.5cm; 301 p.

Italian