Best Selling Books by Ogden Nash

It''s been more than thirty years since the appearance of a collection from America''s laureate of light verse. Ogden Nash first gathered together an anthology of thirty years of his published works in 1959. In 1973 his daughters gathered more than four hundred of his poems and called it I Wouldn''t Have Missed It, a quote from one of his verses. Now more poems have come to light, so his daughters have once again produced The Best of Ogden Nash, the definitive Nash anthology. The poems display the talent of the man whose verse entranced America from the time of the Great Depression until his death in 1971. The Best of Ogden Nash should delight old fans and introduce new readers to a unique talent.

"Mr. Nash has chosen from his five earlier collections of verse those that he wanted available for the growing public. He has added 31 poems found only in the volume of selected verse, The Face Is Familiar, Uniform with Good Intentions and I''m a Stranger Here Myself.'' Kirkus Reviews.

A bumper volume of the best poems by a hugely funny and quotable writer.

Rampant wit and humor abound in this new collection of Nash''s best-loved verses about animals, delightfully illustrated by award-winning illustrator Etienne Delessert. 65 black-and-white illustrations.

"Nash belongs to none of the 20th century''s poetic movements though he borrowed from all of them. He published his first collection during the height of High Modernism and his last in the early 70s with the Language poets and Second New York School bubbling around him. ''The Private Dining Room'' pops and fizzes on the level of sound poetry, both a sendup to the form and to 1950s propriety and etiquette guides."--Ondioline website.

Poems in this book are drawn, with revisions, from ten previous books.

A book of verses previously appearing in various magazines.

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The Knave Evilard nearly ruins Christmas with his mischief. Nicholas Knock, however, restores the celebration.

In 1949, SPORT magazine published Lineup for Yesterday, a collection of poems by Ogden Nash celebrating the greatest big-league baseball players of the 1800s and early 1900s. Using an alphabetical approach, the famous wordsmith paid entertaining tribute to 24 legends of the diamond, encapsulating each in just 4 clever lines. Creative Editions is proud to present this masterpiece to a new generation of fans, reintroducing icons from the formative years of professional baseball. The masterful mixed-media illustrations of C. F. Payne portray these heroes of summer in their athletic primes in this, the first-ever picture book publication of Nash s classic.

In this humorous poem, Custard the cowardly dragon saves the day when a pirate threatens Belinda and her pet animals.

A poem about two boys discovering that girls are not always silly.

All the animals gather to find out just what the Scroobious Pip is.

"Who would be so rashery To rhyme on ogdonnashery, (Which is a climate Most sublimate For verses awfully dashery)? On themes quite indefatigable His latest book''s compatible -- No stone unturned -- No turn unstoned -- On questions burned On facts unknowned. You''ll turn this Nash Right into cash."--Kirkus Reviews.

The feisty Isabel defeats giants, wishes, and other threatening creatures with ease.

Gathers poems on a variety of subjects including love, marriage, parenthood,odern life, animals, aging, travel, work, and food.

Essays and articles, including some first printed in Saturday Evening Post, by Morley, Throckmorton, and Nash about the reopening of the Old Rialto Theatre in Hoboken, NJ. The book ends with reprints of Morley''s exceedingly tongue-in-cheek newspaper ads to entice jaded Broadway patrons of 1928/29 to sail away to Hoboken to experience 19th century melodramas.

Nash is in top form with this rollicking poem about an aardvark who takes a cruise to escape from soggy weather. Arrogant and vain, Aardvark wins few friends among the other animals squeezed aboard the crowded vessel--until he and his tongue save the day and the ark. Illustrated.

"To present an adequate picture of the blithe, careless quality of Ogden Nash''s rib-tickling poems one would have to be another Ogden Nash -- and he is sui generis. He takes his fellow man, and woman, apart in his new collection of vivacious verse -- the first in four years -- with engaging cheerfulness and an insight into their foibles that is almost uncanny." -- New York Times, Edward Laroque Tinker, 1942.

A book length valentine of verses.

Letters written to Ogden Nash''s future wife Frances reveal some of the sensitivity that graced his poetry

This collection of witty poems is meant for young and old alike.