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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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Works by Ogden Nash
The Pocket Book of Ogden Nash 489 copies, 6 reviews
The Tale of Custard the Dragon 340 copies, 10 reviews
Ogden Nash's Zoo 250 copies, 4 reviews
I'm a Stranger Here Myself 246 copies, 1 review
Good Intentions 216 copies
The Adventures of Isabel 213 copies, 4 reviews
Candy Is Dandy: The Best of Ogden Nash 210 copies, 1 review
Selected Poetry of Ogden Nash 208 copies, 2 reviews
The Face is Familiar 206 copies
Versus 206 copies, 2 reviews
The Private Dining Room 200 copies, 2 reviews
Bed riddance; a posy for the indisposed 200 copies, 2 reviews
The Old Dog Barks Backwards. 184 copies, 3 reviews
Many Long Years Ago 180 copies
You Can't Get There from Here 157 copies, 2 reviews
Everyone but thee and me 155 copies, 2 reviews
I Wouldn't Have Missed It: Selected Poems of Ogden Nash 138 copies
Marriage lines; notes of a student husband 138 copies, 1 review
Custard and Company 119 copies, 2 reviews
Verses from 1929 on 108 copies, 2 reviews
The Selected Verse of Ogden Nash 107 copies, 1 review
Custard the Dragon and the Wicked Knight 100 copies, 4 reviews
A Penny Saved Is Impossible 84 copies
Food 80 copies
There's Always Another Windmill 68 copies, 1 review
Family Reunion 66 copies, 1 review
Funniest Verses of Ogden Nash 54 copies
Parents Keep Out: Elderly Poems for Youngerly Readers 49 copies, 4 reviews
The Christmas That Almost Wasn't 49 copies
Hard lines, 33 copies
Moon Is Shining Bright As Day 33 copies, 1 review
The Animal Garden 31 copies
Carnival of the Animals 29 copies, 1 review
Under Water With Ogden Nash 27 copies
Ave Ogden!: Nash in Latin 27 copies, 1 review
Ogden Nash: Versus / Good Intentions / Private Dining Room / Many Long… 26 copies
Beastly poetry (Treasures) 25 copies, 1 review
Lineup for Yesterday 16 copies, 1 review
The untold adventures of Santa Claus 15 copies
The Cruise of the Aardvark 14 copies
The New Nutcracker Suite and Other Innocent Verses 13 copies
One Touch of Venus 13 copies
The primrose path; 12 copies
Free Wheeling 12 copies
The Bad Parents' Garden of Verse 11 copies
Marriage Line 11 copies
I Couldn't Help Laughing 9 copies
Santa Go Home: A Case History for Parents 8 copies
Everybody Ought to Know 7 copies
The Selected Verse of Ogden Nash, Modern Library No. 191 6 copies
Happy Days 6 copies
A boy is a boy;: The fun of being a boy 5 copies
One Touch of Venus (Vocal Selections) 5 copies
Ogden Nash (Versus, I'm a Stranger Here Myself, Good Intentions, 3 volume… 5 copies
A Boy and His Room 5 copies
The Moon Is Shining Bright As Day, An Anthology of Good-Humored Verse… 4 copies
The Mysterious Ouphe 4 copies
Poetry of Ogden Nash, 6 Volumes 4 copies
Christmas With Ogden Nash 3 copies
The Hippopotamus {poem} 3 copies
Ogden Nash Collection of Books - COLLECTABLE ITEMS (Versus, I'm a Stranger… 3 copies
Ogden Nash 6 Volume Set: I'm a Stranger Here Myself; Good Intentions;… 3 copies
Many Long Years Ago by Ogden Nash 1945 Vintage Classic Poetry Dust Jacket 3 copies
girls are silly 2 copies
Private Dining Room & Other New Verses, The containing chiefly poems from… 2 copies
Der Kuckuck führt ein Lotterleben. Purzelreime 2 copies
Speak Low (When You Speak Low) from "One Touch of Venus" [sheet music] 2 copies
Ogden Nash reads Ogden Nash 2 copies
Rare SELECTED POETRY OF OGDEN NASH 650 Rhymes Verses Lyrics and Poems /… 2 copies
Everyone but Thee and Me by Ogden Nash (1985-07-03) 1 copy
I COULDN'T HELP LAUGHING. Stories Selected and Introduced By Ogden… 1 copy
Holiday Collection CD 1 copy
Many Long Years Ago Verses 1 copy
THE LITTLEST REVUE - 1956 ORIGINAL CAST RECORDING LP 1 copy
I'm a Stranger Here Myself by Ogden Nash 1939 Vintage Classic Poetry… 1 copy
That's Him from "One Touch of Venus"; music by Kurt Weill, lyrics by Ogden… 1 copy
Everybody Knows the Trouble I've Seen 1 copy, 1 review
Westwind from "One Touch of Venus" [sheet music] 1 copy
Collected Verse 1 copy
Ogden Nash Collection of Books - COLLECTABLE ITEMS Versus, I'm a Stranger… 1 copy
The Golden Treasury of Ogden Nashery. The Pocket Book of Ogden Nash with… 1 copy
“You Bet Travel is Broadening” 1 copy
Ich bin leider hier auch fremd : ausgewaehlte Gedichte - I am a stranger… 1 copy
The Bad Parents' Garden of Verse Reginal Birch illustrator 1 copy
GOOD INTENTIONS, IM A STRANGER HERE MYSELF, VERSUS by OGDEN NASH POETRY… 1 copy
The Three D's 1 copy
Everybody Knows The Trouble I've Seen 1 copy
Washington's Birthday Eve {poem} 1 copy
Friend of My Friend 1 copy
A Caution to Everybody 1 copy
The Outcome of Mr. Macleod's Gratitude 1 copy
The Boy Who Laughed at Santa Claus [poem] 1 copy
The Book of Ogden Nash 1 copy
The Seven Spiritual Ages of Mrs. Marmaduke Moore (Interpreting Literature… 1 copy
Kill or Be Killed 1 copy
Dog, The 1 copy
Octopus, The 1 copy
Loving letters from Ogden Nash : a family album 1 copy
Versus, I'm a Stranger Here Myself 1 copy
There's Always Another Windmill 1 copy
Carnival of the Animals 1 copy
The Art of Living Together 1 copy
The Sea-Gull [poem] 1 copy
Locust Lovers, Attention! 1 copy, 1 review
W świecie mułów nie ma regułów 1 copy
Nash's Smashes 1 copy
Your Friends Are My Friends 1 copy
The Centipede {poem} 1 copy
The Ant {poem} 1 copy
Fellow Creatures: The Neighbors; The Japanese; The Northerners; The King… 1 copy, 1 review
An Introduction to Dogs {poem} 1 copy
Midsummer's Daymare {poem} 1 copy, 1 review
The Calf {poem} 1 copy
The Purist {poem} 1 copy
Home Is the Golfer 1 copy
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Also by Ogden Nash
Eric Carle's Animals Animals (Contributor) 2,024 copies, 28 reviews
The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms (Contributor) 1,175 copies, 9 reviews
Winter Poems (Contributor) 1,074 copies, 10 reviews
Fierce Pajamas: An Anthology of Humor Writing from The New Yorker (Contributor) 688 copies, 6 reviews
Secret Ingredients: The New Yorker Book of Food and Drink (Contributor) 513 copies, 9 reviews
Masterpieces of Terror and the Supernatural: A Treasury of Spellbinding… (Contributor) 493 copies, 3 reviews
A Pocket Book of Modern Verse (Contributor, some editions) 421 copies, 1 review
American Poetry : The Twentieth Century, Volume 2 : E.E. Cummings to May… (Contributor) 386 copies, 1 review
The Lure of the Limerick (Contributor) 270 copies, 7 reviews
The 40s: The Story of a Decade (Contributor) 257 copies, 4 reviews
The Literary Cat (Contributor) 232 copies
This Is My Best (Contributor) 168 copies
Poetry Speaks Expanded: Hear Poets Read Their Own Work from Tennyson to… (Contributor) 136 copies, 1 review
American Wits: An Anthology of Light Verse (Contributor) 130 copies, 3 reviews
The Saturday Evening Post Treasury (Contributor) 129 copies
Haunted America: Star-Spangled Supernatural Stories (Contributor) 106 copies, 1 review
Fun Fare: A Treasury of Reader's Digest Wit and Humor (Contributor) 105 copies, 4 reviews
The Baseball Reader: Favorites from the Fireside Book of Baseball (Contributor) 99 copies
The Scroobious Pip (Author, some editions) 97 copies, 3 reviews
The Norton Book of Friendship (Contributor) 92 copies
Nothing But Wodehouse (Editor) 84 copies, 1 review
Beastly Verse (Contributor) 81 copies, 7 reviews
Ten Great Musicals of the American Theatre (Contributor) 79 copies, 2 reviews
65 Great Spine Chillers (Contributor) 73 copies, 2 reviews
The Everyman Anthology of Poetry for Children (Contributor) 67 copies
Laughing Space: An Anthology of Science Fiction Humour (Contributor) 52 copies, 2 reviews
Great Baseball Stories (Contributor) 41 copies
Out of the Best Books: An Anthology of Literature, Vol. 2: Love, Marriage,… (Contributor) 37 copies
The Savannah cook book; a collection of the old fashioned receipts from… (Introduction, some editions) 25 copies, 2 reviews
Buzz Words: Poems About Insects (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets… (Contributor) 23 copies
This Slimming Business (Contributor) 21 copies
Ellery Queen's Poetic Justice (Contributor, some editions) 18 copies
A Treasury of American Humor (Contributor) 18 copies, 1 review
The Panorama of Modern Literature (Contributor) 14 copies, 1 review
The Defective Detective: Mystery Parodies by the Great Humorists (Contributor) 14 copies
Kurt Weill: From Berlin To Broadway (Piano/Vocal/Songbook) (Author) 12 copies
The Voice of the Poet: American Wits (Contributor) 10 copies
Men and Women: The Poetry of Love (Contributor) 7 copies
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 5, January 1974 (Contributor) 6 copies
The Fireside Treasury of Modern Humor (Contributor) 5 copies
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 8, No. 5, January 1981 (Contributor) 3 copies
Nothing Solemn: An anthology of comic verse (Contributor) 3 copies, 1 review
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 8, No. 6, February 1981 (Contributor) 3 copies
The Bathroom Reader (Contributor) 3 copies
Ogden Nash's The Tales of Custard the Dragon 1 copy
Diners' Delight: the Best of the Diners' Club Magazine (Contributor) 1 copy
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 7, No. 11, July 1980 (Contributor) 1 copy
American Humor and Satire (Contributor; Narrator) 1 copy
14 American Masterpieces Vol.1 (Contributor) 1 copy
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Canonical name
Nash, Ogden
Legal name
Nash, Frederic Ogden
Other names
Date of birth
1902-08-19
Date of death
1971-05-19
Burial location
East Cemetary, North Hampton, Rockingham County, New Hampshire, USA
Gender
male
Nationality
USA
Country (for map)
Birthplace
Rye, New York, USA
Place of death
Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Cause of death
Crohn's disease
heart failure
Places of residence
New York, New York, USA
Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Education
Harvard University
St. George's School, Newport County, Rhode Island, USA
Occupations
poet
teacher
editor
copy writer
Relationships
Eberstadt, Isabel (daughter)
Eberstadt, Fernanda (granddaughter)
Agents
Edith Haggard
Organizations
American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature, 1950)
Awards and honors
Short biography
Disambiguation notice

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