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New York City, N. Y. 1920-21. Collection of 263 photographic postcards documenting a New York City Italian American family’s return to Italy to visit family members and tour the country. The photographs show an enthusiastic family embracing their extended family and the country from which they emigrated. The photos include: ..... More
Boston: Houghton, Miffllin and Company, at the Riverside Press, 1884. 8vo. 175 x 125 mm., [7 x 4 3/4 inches]. 300 pp., plus 8 pp. of ads for H/M travel books. Original blue publisher's cloth. Very good copy.First edition thus, two of the chapters appeared in The Atlantic in 1881..... More
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1939. 8vo. 311 pp. Black cloth boards, image of a "pick and shovel" gilt on upper board and spine; top edge of text with red/orange wash; dust jacket. This copy is signed by the author on front free endpaper. Endpapers and pastedowns slightly toned; unclipped dust jacket..... More
New York: Julian Messner, 1960. 8vo. 210 x 135 mm., [8 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches]. [viii], 246 pp. Publisher's cloth, dust jacket. Jacket with rubbing at the edges, head and tail of spine with minor tears, a bit fading to the color of the jacket, otherwise very good copy.First..... More
Santa Rosa (CA), Black Sparrow Press, 1989. 8vo. 230 x 150 mm., [9 x 5 3/4 inches]. 266 pp., plus a full-page portrait of Fante and a one page biography. Original printed wrappers. Very good copy.First Black Sparrow edition, originally printed in 1938. Fante's first novel, an autobiographical story of..... More
New York: John A. Gray & Green, Printers, 1867. 8vo. 240 x 160 mm., [9 1/4 x 6 1/2 inches]. 40 pp. Original printed wrappers, chipped at edges and a bit of the spine, lightly soiled; otherwise a good copy.Born into a family of comedic actors, Adelaide Ristori (1822-1906) excelled..... More
Amsterdam: Lecturis, 2019. Oblong 4to. 240 x 290 mm., [9 ½ x 11 ½ inches]. 10 pp. text, 60 photographic illustrations. Original boards, photo illustrated cover. A photographic slice of life, of a small, intimate café in Gloucester, Massachusetts, that almost disappeared with the passage of generations. Goldberg’s photos capture..... More
N. p., (J. T. Moss). 1909. Large 8vo. 235 x 175 mm., [9 1/4 x 7 inches]. 400 pp. Illustrated with reproductions of photographs taken especially for this volume. Original cloth, with medallion of the Red Cross in center of the upper board and the title in gilt surrounding the..... More
Port Washington Long Island New York, 1928, A group of ephemera from this Italian-American fraternal organization, established in 1925 in Port Washington, L.I. Loggia John Michael Marino was established in 1925 in Port Washington, Long Island, a large center of the Italian American community outside New York City. It was..... More
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1937. 8vo. 215 x 140 mm., [8 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches]. 569 pp. Publisher's light blue linen cloth, dust jacket. A few scratches to front panel and a s small area of erosion at the crown of spine, otherwise Near Fine Copy.A closely observed study of..... More
