FEE FI FO FUM! A BOOK OF FAIRY STORIES
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First edition
London: Macmillan & Co Ltd, 1959. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects nine stories: traditional fairy tales retold and skewed ironically for an adult audience. Osbert was the middle of three literary siblings between Edith and Sacheverell , prominent in the years between the two World Wars, aristocratic modernists or, as their critics might say, supercilious rabble-rousers . Osbert is remembered now chiefly for his
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