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Ogden Nash (1902–1971)

Author of The Pocket Book of Ogden Nash

Includes the names: Ogfen Nash, Nash Ogden, Odgen Nash

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Series

Custard the Dragon

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Works by Ogden Nash

The Pocket Book of Ogden Nash 441 copies, 6 reviews

The Tale of Custard the Dragon 296 copies, 8 reviews

I'm a Stranger Here Myself 231 copies, 1 review

Ogden Nash's Zoo 226 copies, 4 reviews

Good Intentions 201 copies

Candy Is Dandy: The Best of Ogden Nash 192 copies, 1 review

The Face is Familiar 189 copies

Bed riddance; a posy for the indisposed 187 copies, 2 reviews

The Adventures of Isabel 186 copies, 4 reviews

Versus 185 copies, 2 reviews

The Private Dining Room 184 copies, 2 reviews

Selected Poetry of Ogden Nash 182 copies, 2 reviews

The Old Dog Barks Backwards. 165 copies, 3 reviews

Many Long Years Ago 164 copies

You Can't Get There from Here 146 copies, 2 reviews

Everyone but thee and me 143 copies, 2 reviews

Marriage lines; notes of a student husband 131 copies, 1 review

I Wouldn't Have Missed It: Selected Poems of Ogden Nash 121 copies

Custard and Company 105 copies, 2 reviews

Verses from 1929 on 101 copies, 2 reviews

The Selected Verse of Ogden Nash 93 copies, 1 review

Custard the Dragon and the Wicked Knight 89 copies, 4 reviews

A Penny Saved Is Impossible 79 copies

Food 72 copies

There's Always Another Windmill 64 copies

Family Reunion 62 copies, 1 review

Funniest Verses of Ogden Nash 53 copies

The Christmas That Almost Wasn't 45 copies

Parents Keep Out: Elderly Poems for Youngerly Readers 45 copies, 4 reviews

Hard lines, 31 copies

Moon Is Shining Bright As Day 31 copies, 1 review

The Animal Garden 29 copies

Carnival of the Animals 28 copies, 1 review

Ave Ogden!: Nash in Latin 25 copies, 1 review

Ogden Nash: Versus / Good Intentions / Private Dining Room / Many Long… 24 copies

Beastly poetry (Treasures) 24 copies, 1 review

Under Water With Ogden Nash 23 copies

The untold adventures of Santa Claus 13 copies

Lineup for Yesterday 13 copies, 1 review

The Cruise of the Aardvark 12 copies

Free Wheeling 12 copies

One Touch of Venus 12 copies

The Bad Parents' Garden of Verse 11 copies

The primrose path; 11 copies

The New Nutcracker Suite and Other Innocent Verses 10 copies

Santa Go Home: A Case History for Parents 8 copies

I Couldn't Help Laughing 8 copies

Everybody Ought to Know 7 copies

Happy Days 6 copies

Ogden Nash (Versus, I'm a Stranger Here Myself, Good Intentions, 3 volume… 5 copies

The Mysterious Ouphe 4 copies

A boy is a boy;: The fun of being a boy 4 copies

Poetry of Ogden Nash, 6 Volumes 4 copies

One Touch of Venus (Vocal Selections) 4 copies

A Boy and His Room 4 copies

The Moon Is Shining Bright As Day, An Anthology of Good-Humored Verse… 3 copies

Ogden Nash Collection of Books - COLLECTABLE ITEMS (Versus, I'm a Stranger… 3 copies

Private Dining Room & Other New Verses, The containing chiefly poems from… 2 copies

New Comic Limericks: Laughable Poems 2 copies

The Selected Verse of Ogden Nash, Modern Library No. 191 2 copies

Christmas With Ogden Nash 2 copies

Der Kuckuck führt ein Lotterleben. Purzelreime 2 copies

girls are silly 2 copies

The Hippopotamus (Beastly Verse) 2 copies

Home Is the Golfer 1 copy

Ogden Nash 6 Volume Set: I'm a Stranger Here Myself; Good Intentions;… 1 copy

Everybody Knows the Trouble I've Seen 1 copy, 1 review

Your Friends Are My Friends 1 copy

Nash's Smashes 1 copy

W świecie mułów nie ma regułów 1 copy

I COULDN'T HELP LAUGHING. Stories Selected and Introduced By Ogden… 1 copy

Good Intentions, I'm a Stranger Here Myself, Many Long Years Ago,… 1 copy

THE LITTLEST REVUE - 1956 ORIGINAL CAST RECORDING LP 1 copy

Many Long Years Ago Verses 1 copy

Westwind from "One Touch of Venus" [sheet music] 1 copy

The Pocketbook of Ogden Nash 1 copy

Speak Low (When You Speak Low) from "One Touch of Venus" [sheet music] 1 copy

Marriage Line 1 copy

Holiday Collection CD 1 copy

Everyone but Thee and Me by Ogden Nash (1985-07-03) 1 copy

That's Him from "One Touch of Venus"; music by Kurt Weill, lyrics by Ogden… 1 copy

Versus, I'm a Stranger Here Myself 1 copy

The Outcome of Mr. Macleod's Gratitude 1 copy

Friend of My Friend 1 copy

Ogden Nash reads Ogden Nash 1 copy

The Boy Who Laughed at Santa Claus [poem] 1 copy

The Book of Ogden Nash 1 copy

A Caution to Everybody 1 copy

The Seven Spiritual Ages of Mrs. Marmaduke Moore (Interpreting Literature… 1 copy

Octopus, The 1 copy

Dog, The 1 copy

Loving letters from Ogden Nash : a family album 1 copy

Kill or Be Killed 1 copy

Carnival of the Animals 1 copy

The Art of Living Together 1 copy

The Ant {poem} 1 copy

The Hippopotamus {poem} 1 copy

The Centipede {poem} 1 copy

Locust Lovers, Attention! 1 copy, 1 review

The Purist {poem} 1 copy

The Calf {poem} 1 copy

An Introduction to Dogs {poem} 1 copy

Fellow Creatures: The Neighbors; The Japanese; The Northerners; The King… 1 copy, 1 review

Midsummer's Daymare {poem} 1 copy, 1 review

Washington's Birthday Eve {poem} 1 copy

The Sea-Gull [poem] 1 copy

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Also by Ogden Nash

Winter Poems (Contributor) 849 copies, 10 reviews

Fierce Pajamas: An Anthology of Humor Writing from The New Yorker (Contributor) 636 copies, 6 reviews

Secret Ingredients: The New Yorker Book of Food and Drink (Contributor) 454 copies, 8 reviews

Masterpieces of Terror and the Supernatural: A Treasury of Spellbinding… (Contributor) 436 copies, 3 reviews

A Pocket Book of Modern Verse (Contributor, some editions) 392 copies, 1 review

The Lure of the Limerick (Contributor) 245 copies, 7 reviews

The Literary Cat (Author) 206 copies

The 40s: The Story of a Decade (Contributor) 200 copies, 4 reviews

Poetry Speaks Expanded: Hear Poets Read Their Own Work From Tennyson to… (Contributor) 126 copies, 1 review

American Wits: An Anthology of Light Verse (Contributor) 115 copies, 3 reviews

Fun Fare: A Treasury of Reader's Digest Wit and Humor (Contributor) 93 copies, 4 reviews

The Baseball Reader: Favorites from the Fireside Book of Baseball (Contributor) 91 copies

Haunted America: Star-Spangled Supernatural Stories (Contributor) 91 copies

Norton Book of Friendship (Contributor) 84 copies

The Scroobious Pip (Author, some editions) 83 copies, 3 reviews

Nothing But Wodehouse (Editor) 73 copies

Ten Great Musicals of the American Theatre (Contributor) 70 copies, 2 reviews

Beastly Verse (Contributor) 63 copies, 5 reviews

65 Great Spine Chillers (Contributor) 62 copies, 2 reviews

The Everyman Anthology of Poetry for Children (Contributor) 55 copies

Laughing Space: An Anthology of Science Fiction Humour (Contributor) 44 copies, 2 reviews

Great Baseball Stories (Contributor) 35 copies

Out of the Best Books: An Anthology of Literature, Vol. 2: Love, Marriage,… (Contributor) 30 copies

The Savannah cook book; a collection of the old fashioned receipts from… (Introduction, some editions) 25 copies, 2 reviews

Windigo: An Anthology of Fact and Fantastic Fiction (Contributor) 19 copies

This Slimming Business (Contributor) 19 copies

A Treasury of American Humor (Contributor) 18 copies, 1 review

Ellery Queen's Poetic Justice (Author, some editions) 17 copies

The Panorama of Modern Literature (Contributor) 14 copies, 1 review

Kurt Weill: From Berlin To Broadway (Piano/Vocal/Songbook) (Author) 11 copies

The Defective Detective: Mystery Parodies by the Great Humorists (Contributor) 11 copies

The Voice of the Poet: American Wits (Contributor) 8 copies

Men And Women: The Poetry Of Love (Contributor) 7 copies

Save Your Love for Me (Composer) 1 copy

Ogden Nash's The Tales of Custard the Dragon 1 copy

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Nash, Frederic Ogden

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Little Boar's Head, New Hampshire, USA

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Birthplace

Rye, New York, USA

Place of death

Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Cause of death

Crohn's disease

Places of residence

New York, New York, USA

Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Education

Harvard University

St. George's School, Newport County, Rhode Island, USA

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Eberstadt, Isabel (daughter)

Eberstadt, Fernanda (granddaughter)

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American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature ∙ 1950)

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