Italian-American Folktales
- ISBN-10
- 0933190034
- ISBN-13
- 9780933190030
- Category
- Fiction / Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology
- Pages
- 180
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1977
- Publisher
- Clyde Press
- Author
- Catherine Harris Ainsworth
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