San Francisco: Banca Fugazi, [1900s-1910s]. Three items: 1: cloth and leather billfold (6.5x4 inches closed) with an image of Banca's building at 2 Columbus Ave. in gilt and facts about the bank on the opposite panel also in gilt. 2: Original pictorial envelope with picture of Fugazi and two one... More

Cat.No: 207594

New York: Italian Library of Information, 1940. 72p., mimeographed from typescript, mineo'd map on cover; 8.5x11 inches, bound with staples; cloth tape along spine is frayed and torn. Pro-Fascist discussion of British control over the Mediterranean via Gibraltar, the Dardanelles and the Suez Canal. Opens with a quote from Mussolini. More

Cat.No: 184598

no place: no publisher, no date (1977). Paperback. Unpaginated, perhaps 45 pages, light-green textured paperstock in sewn signatures with eighteen 5x7 inch color plates mounted opposite caption titles, plus nine-pages of Leo Stern's preface set with eccentric typography; softbound, a 7.5-inch-square paperback in coated black and bronze wraps. Covers are... More

Cat.No: 230491

New York: Published by S. Romualdi and S.M. Levitas, [1936?]. 22p., wraps, illus. Antonini was General Secretary of Local 89 of Italian Dressmakers, the first vice-president of the ILGWU and a leader of the American Labor Party. In this pamphlet he attacks Marcantonio for his alleged ties to Italian fascists. More

Cat.No: 1660

Iowa City: Aunt Lute Book Company, 1983. Paperback. 95p., very good first edition trade paperback in black wraps. Born in Brooklyn, at writing an eight-year San Francisco resident, Azpdu is from a Sicilian immigrant family, writes in the context of "the male-dominated Sicilian culture that affects the women who exist... More

Cat.No: 21365

Milano: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, 1981. Paperback. 164p., text in Italian, very good first edition trade paperback in red pictorial wraps and sunned spine. The gay author and poet's memoir of the murder of his friend. More

Cat.No: 226093

San Francisco: Self-published, 1943. 4p.., 8.25x10.5 inches, very good sheet music in original illustrated self-wraps. Sheet music and lyrics by the San Francisco music teacher-composer. Cover in orange and blue on white, shows a swirl of lipsticked lips around a deco female profile. More

Cat.No: 124307

Norway, Maine: the author, [1883-1887]. Single large sheet, printed on one side, 12.5x24 inches, faint creases with very small holes at former junctions of folds, paper yellowed, encased in protective mylar sleeve to prevent deterioration. Large broadside printed in small font, five vertical columns, concluding with a three-stanza poem. C.E.... More

Cat.No: 129582

New York: Vantage Press, 1963. 266p., small stain on tail of spine otherwise a very good first edition in cloth, gilt and unclipped dj with a lightly-sunned spine. Personal inscription signed by the self-published Italian American immigrant author, based in San Francisco. More

Cat.No: 147642

New York: Delacorte, 2000. Hardcover. 209p., signed by author on title page, very good first edition in boards and unclipped dj. Semi-autobiographical novel of childhood by the Italian American living in Florida. More

Cat.No: 230976

[16p.] including covers8.5x11 inches, color plates, very good exhibition catalogue in stiff pictorial stapled wraps. More

Cat.No: 155946

Fort Lee, NJ: Barricade, 2004. Hardcover. viii, 291p., preface, introduction, cast of characters, references, notes, glossy b&w photo section, very good first edition in boards and unclipped dj. More

Cat.No: 226852

New York: E. P. Dutton, 1983. Hardcover. 244p., very good first edition in quarter-cloth boards and unclipped dj. More

Cat.No: 14821