Versus / Ogden Nash
1949, Second Edition. London, J.M. Dent and Sons Ltd. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn (with some loss) and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Item #379525
Physical description : 169 pages ; 19 cm. xiii, 169 pages ; 20 cm. Notes : Includes index. Contents : I will arise and go now -- The hunter -- Thoughts thought after a bridge party -- Any millenniums today, lady? -- A word about winter -- How do you say ha-ha in French? -- Stag night, paleolithic -- Let's not climb the Washington Monument tonight -- Who did which? or, who indeed? -- You bet travel is broadening -- Thar she blows -- What to do until the doctor goes, or, It's tomorrow than you think -- Two dogs have I -- On waking to the third rainy morning of a long week end -- Quick, Hammacher, my stomacher -- The cherub -- Who called that robin a piccolo player? -- The outcome of Mr. MacLeod's gratitude -- What I know about life -- Pastoral -- Very funny, very funny -- We would refer you to our service department, if we had one -- First limick -- Who taught caddies to count? or, A burnt golfer fears the child -- There were giants in those days, or, Maybe there weren't -- Tarkigton, thou should'st be living in this hour -- The strange case of Mr. Palliser's palate -- We'll all feel better by Wednesday -- Will you have your tedium rare or medium? The porcupine -- There's nothing like instinct. Fortunately -- Martha's Vineyard -- The people upstairs -- The strange case of the renegade lyric writer -- The spinster detective -- Trick or trek -- Tableau at twilight -- Spring comes to Baltimore, or, Christmas comes more promptly -- There are more ways to roast a pig than burning the house down, or, You can always stick your head in a volcano -- Second limick -- Line-up for yesterday, an ABC of baseball immortals -- September is summer, too, or, It's never too late to be uncomfortable -- The second month it's not itemized -- The banker's special -- The lion -- Soliloquy in circles -- Roll on, thou deep and dark blue copy writer, roll! -- Epitaph for an explorer -- The strange case of the entomologist's heart -- The sea gull and the ea-gull -- Third limick -- Possessions are nine points of conversation -- Polterguest, my polterguest -- Reprise -- Piano tuner, untune me that tune -- Pappy wants a poppy -- Not even for brunch -- The outcome of Mr. Buck's superstition -- Mrs. Purvis dreads room service, or, Mr. Purvis dreads it, too -- Oh shucks, Ma'am, I mean excuse me -- Always marry an April girl -- Listen to the linotype -- Nature abhors a vacancy -- Lines to be embroidered on a bib, or, The child is father of the man, but not for quite a while -- Fourth limick -- I do, I will, I have -- I'll gladly pull over to the curb -- Lay that pumpkin down -- The guppy -- I must tell you about my novel -- Is tomorrow really another? Or, no more of the same, please -- If anything should arise, it isn't I -- Good riddance, but now what? -- Is this seat taken? Yes, or, My neck is sticking in -- I'll take the high road commission -- Have you tried staying awake? Or, They'll find a way to stop that, too -- A posy for Edmund Clerihew Bentley -- Others in the cast include -- The asp -- How the rhinoceros got its hide, or, The confessions of Count Mowgli de Sade -- Grin and bear left -- He digs, he dug, he has dug -- The eternal vernal, or, In all my dreams my fair face beams -- Don't look now, but your noblesse oblige is showing -- The cup and the lip -- Fifth limick -- Cousin Euphemia knows best, or, Physician heal somebody else -- Consider the lapel, Sir -- Here usually comes the bride -- I am full of previous experience -- First child ... second child -- It looks like snow, or, My life in galoshes -- Confession to be traced on a birthday cake -- If he scholars, let him go -- Compliments of a friend -- Confound you, December twenty-sixth, I apologize -- The middle -- For a good dog -- The blissful dream of Mr. Farr -- The perfect husband -- I spy. Subjects : Humorous poetry, American. Humorous poetry, American. English poetry 20th century. United States of America. Humorous poetry.
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