ALATI. Bollettino dei nuovi dischi Columbia.
Rome, Via Tre Cannelle 16: September 1936 (Anno XIV). Monthly illustrated bulletin, quarto, pictorial wrappers, illustrated throughout. 6 ½ x 9 ½ inches. Light wear and age toning; fine condition. Item #List3610
Italian promotional bulletin issued by Columbia Records highlighting newly released recordings for the Italian market, featuring a fantastic unrecorded illustration of Josephine Baker on the cover. Designed in a modernist graphic idiom typical of mid-1930s European record advertising, the publication combines photography, typography, and product illustration to promote both artists and playback technologies. Contents include illustrated features on Giuseppe Verdi and Otello recordings; Luigi Forti and Leo Piccoli; Enzo De Muro Lomanto; Vittorio De Sica; Carlo Buti; Giglio; Rodolfo De Angelis; Fiorentini; and Pepino Mendes, alongside listings for operatic arias, popular songs, film music selections, and dance recordings. Additional sections present orchestral and jazz releases, international dance successes, and “Films Sonori,” including a feature on Josephine Baker associated with La Venere Nera. Numerous advertisements promote Columbia phonographs, radiograms, and radio receivers (including Faltusa and Taumante models), with technical descriptions and pricing. Baker appears here as a central promotional figure for Columbia’s European catalogue. By the mid-1930s she had become one of the most recognizable Black performers in transatlantic popular culture. We find no surviving examples, either in OCLC or in commerce, or other examples of the image in other publications.
Price: $450.00