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Marillier, Clement Pierre (1740-1808)41
Mayer, Charles Joseph (1751-1825?)41
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Karrik, Valerian VilʹI︠A︡Movich (1869-1942)18
Karrik, Valerian Vilʹ︠I︡Amovich (1869-1942)14
Halliday, Sir William Reginald (1886-1966)10
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Le Grand D'Aussy, Pierre Jean Baptiste (1737-1800)10
Penzer, N M (1892-1960)10
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Siberian and other folk-tales : primitive literature of the empire of the Tsars, collected and translated, with an introduction and notes

Coxwell, C Fillingham (1856-)

1925

Includes bibliographical references (pages 1035-1040) and index.

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Morphology of the folktale

Propp, V ︠I︡A (1895-1970)

[1968]

Translation of the original Russian ed., 1928. "First edition translated by Laurence Scott with an introduction by Svatava Pirkova-Jakobson".

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Slovat︠s︡kie skazki

Gorbov, D A (1894-1967)

1950

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Malachite casket : tales from the Urals

Bazhov, P P (1879-1950); Manning, Eve; Korovin, O

1945

The mistress of the copper mountain -- The malachite casket -- The flower of stone -- The mountain craftsman -- A fragile twig -- That spark of life -- Zhelezko's covers -- The bailiff's bootsoles -- ...

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The types of the folk-tale : a classification and bibliography

Aarne, Antti (1867-1925); Thompson, Stith (1885-1976)

1961

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Old Peter's Russian tales

Ransome, Arthur (1884-1967); Mitrokhin, Dmitriĭ Isidorovich (1883-1973)

1935

"First published in this series 1935."

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[Narodnyi︠a︡ skazki]

An anthology of 19th century prose and poetry, including short biographies of the authors.

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Picture tales from the Russian

Karrik, Valerian Vilʹi︠a︡movich (1869-1942); Forbes, Nevill (1883-1929)

[1926, reprinted 1932]

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Russian fairy tales from the Skazki of Polevoi

Polevoĭ, Petr Nikolaevich (1839-1902); Bain, R Nisbet (1854-1909); Nisbet, Noel L (1887-)

1915

Selections from Narodnuiya russkiya skazki, first published at St. Petersburg, 1874. cf. Pref.

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Russian fairy tales

Budberg, Moura; Williams-Ellis, Amabel (1894-1984); Nechamkin, Sarah

1965

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Sagnablöð (v.1-3)

Jóhannes Örn Jónsson (1892-1960)

[1947-1948]

"1.-3. hefti." No more published.

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Folk tales from Iceland and other countries

Scargill, M H

1943

On cover and title-page the author's initials are given as "H.M."

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