[Buffalo, NY]: Partito Communista USA, [1936]. 8.5x11 inch handbill, mimeographed one side, paper toned, lower left corner has a chip (no loss of text). "E' possibile l'annessione dell'Etiopia senza scatenare la guerra mondiale?" The event was held at Casa del Popolo, 240 Court Street. More
Cat.No: 256844
[Italy]: n.p., n.d. Unused postcard, very good, with portrait of the anarchist who assassinated King Umberto I. Text below the portrait gives a brief account of the assassination and states that after his imprisonment he was found hung in 1902 (this actually happened in 1901). Undated but appears to be..... More
Cat.No: 256326
Bari: Edizioni Dedalo, 1970. Two issues of the staplebound radical journal, 76 and 66 pages respectively, numbers 3/4 and 5 are present. 8.5x11 inches.Text in Italian. Even toning, light handling wear, very good. More
Cat.No: 216181
Cupertino: California History Center, 1973. 72p., 5.5x8.5 inches, map, preface, footnotes, sources, photos, very good first edition in original pictorial wraps. Short historical essays by Mary Black, Walter de Veechi, Gloria J. Reagan and others. More
Cat.No: 99643
New York: Communist Party, NY State Committee, [1940]. 8.5x11 inch handbill, English on one side, Italian on the other, small tear and chip at bottom, otherwise very good. Issued during the period of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, when the CPUSA sought to "Keep America out of the imperialist war." Takes special..... More
Cat.No: 256836
Washington, D. C: GPO, 1981. v, 36p., 97th congress 1st session no. 6. Brief "formal report..of a study mission to the Federal Republic of Germandy and Italy from December 13-18.." to "assist the members in considering legislation and exercising oversight of the problem of terrorism." Announces four "research projects" to..... More
Cat.No: 70096
Boston: The Excelsior Press, 1936. 29p., stapled wraps, 6x9.25 inches, wraps lightly worn, wraps and first page lightly toned along edges else very good condition. Printed list of signatories including Heywood Broun, Malcolm Cowley, John Dos Passos, Granville Hicks, John Brooks Wheelwright and other alumni of Harvard. More
Cat.No: 2937
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
Stanford, CA: Hoover Institution Press, 1979. Hardcover. 179p., hardcover in dustjacket, a very good copy. Hoover Institution publication 201. More
Cat.No: 230142
Novato: Anderson Publishing, 1991. vi, 181p., coated paperstock throughout, full-page b&w photographic plates with facing text. Coffeetable size cloth boards very good in edgeworn chipped dust jacket. Local celebrities, mostly, but find a few wellknown rockers (women & men) and multicultural as well as white personalities. More
Cat.No: 74735
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
New York: Società Tipografica Italiana, 1925. 380p., hardcover, front board marred with unknown black substance, also staining lower right corner of the first couple of pages (endpapers and half-title page); after the title page, interior is clean. Overview of the Order Sons of Italy in America, which at this time..... More
Cat.No: 256835
London: Onlywomen Press, 1987. Paperback. 95p., very good first UK trade paperback edition in yellow pictorial wraps. Anna Livia's copy, with her signature. More
Cat.No: 126416
Merrick NY: Cross-Cultural Communications, 1976. An 11.5x9 inch folder with pockets containing fourteen standard leaves, cover sheet on 20# paper, the rest on light parti-colored cardstock. Cover leaf advances a dense mission statement, the others poems in English translated from Italian and Sicilian. The folder's rear cover prints a long..... More
Cat.No: 244511
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
New York: Edizioni Sociali, 1933. 289, [6]p., wraps, 5x7.5 inches, illus. with frontispiece portrait of Malatesta and one photograph of his death mask, wraps worn, toned, and lightly soiled, spine creased, corner of one page extends slightly past wraps due to a printing error else very good condition. Text in..... More
Cat.No: 257644
New York: Circolo Operaio di Cultura Sociale, [1927?]. 60p., slender paperback, spine panel chipped and re-glued, some corner wear. Text in Italian. More
Cat.No: 256424
New York: Freie Arbeiter Stimme, 1938. Paperback. xvi, 207p., stiff wraps, 5.25x7.5 inches, wraps soiled and stained, previous owner's name penned on front blank else very good condition. Borghi was a notable Italian anarchist in exile at time of publication. More
Cat.No: 82385
San Francisco: the school, 1946. Hardcover. Unpaginated, standard yearbook format on glossy paperstock illustrated with b&w photos only; hardbound in titled 11x8 inch textured white cloth boards gilt-titled, edges are worn with tiny losses at head and tail, a marginal damp-ripple affects all leaves along top edge, else clean and..... More
Cat.No: 186614
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
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New York: Knopf, 1945. Hardcover. 225p., illustrated with line drawings, signed by the author, gift inscription added, very good first edition in cloth boards and unclipped, edgeworn dj. Young adult biography of the Hero of Montevido. More
Cat.No: 232892
Chicago: 1940. 192p., very good paperback inscribed by the author to Carmelo Zito, editor of 'Il Corriere del Popolo' in San Francisco, with a chipped dustwrapper bearing Zito's ownership signature at the top edge. The memoirs of the Italian immigrant socialist organizer Vittorio Buttis, a member of the Italian Socialist..... More
Cat.No: 256829
New York: Vantage Press, 1963. 266p., first edition in cloth, gilt and unclipped dj. Book itself has a white smudge at the tail of spine panel and dj a lightly-sunned spine; otherwise sound. clean and unmarked. Personal inscription signed by the self-published Italian American immigrant author, based in San Francisco..... More
Cat.No: 147642
Boston: Beacon Press, 1998. Hardcover. xvi, 262p., very good first edition, first printing stated in quarter-cloth boards and unclipped dj. Memoir of growing up Italian-American and lesbian in Pennsylvania. More
Cat.No: 201950
London: Bloomsbury Books, 1988. Hardcover. 128p., 8.5x11.5 inches, profusely illustrated with b&w reproductions (and a few in color) of Caravaggio's and others' works, very good in boards and unclipped, mildly sunned dj. More
Cat.No: 104884
