Ogden Nash Books & Plays

A Chronology

1925-1940
The Cricket of Carador (1925 Doubleday Page) - Juvenile with Joseph Alger
Born in a Beer Garden, or She Troupes to Conquer (1930 Rudge)
- with Christopher Morley & Cleon Throckmorton
Hard Lines (1931 Simon & Schuster) (1932 Duckworth)
Free Wheeling (1931 Simon & Schuster)
(Ed) Nothing but Wodehouse (1932 Doubleday)
Happy Days (1933 Simon & Schuster)
Four Prominent So and So's (1934 Simon & Schuster) - music by Robert Armbruster
The Primrose Path (1935 Simon & Schuster) (1935 Bodley Head)
The Bad Parent's Garden of Verse (1936 Simon & Schuster) + 400 signed
Bon Voyage (1936)
I'm A Stranger Here Myself (1938 Little Brown) (1938 Gollancz)
The Face is Familiar : Selected Verse (1940 Little Brown) (1942 Dent)

1941-1950
Good Intentions (1942 Little Brown) (1943 Dent)
The Ogden Nash Pocket Book (1944 BLakiston Pb, US)
One Touch of Venus (1944 Lippincott) - Play with S J Perelman, music by Kurt Weill
Many Long Years Ago (1945 Little Brown) (1954 Dent)
Selected Verse (1946 Modern Library, NY)
Ogden Nash's Musical Zoo (1947 Little Brown) - tunes by Vernon Duke
Versus (1949 Little Brown) (1949 Dent)
Family Re-Union (1950 Little Brown) ((1951 Dent)

1951-1960
Parents Keep Out : Elderly Poems for Youngerly Readers (1951 Little Brown) - Marton Wells
(1962 Dent)
The Private Dining-Room & Other Verses (1953 Little Brown) (1953 Dent)
(Ed) The Moon is Shining Bright as Day : An Anthology of Good-Humored Verse (1953 Lippincott)
Many Long Years Ago (1954 Dent)
(Ed) I Couldn't Help Laughing : Stories Selected & Introduced (1957 Lippincott)
The Christmas That Almost Wasn't (1957 Little Brown) (1958 Dent) - Linell Nash
The Boy Who Laughed at Santa Claus (1957)
You Can't Get There From Here (1957 Little Brown) (1957 Dent 12/6) - Maurice Sendak
Custard the Dragon (1959 Little Brown) (1960 Dent) - Linell Nash
Verses from 1929 On (1959 Little Brown) (1961 Dent as "Collected Verse from 1929 On")
Scrooge Rides Again (1960 Hart Press, US) - Victor R Anderson
A Boy is a Boy : The Fun of Being a Boy (1960 Watts, NY) (1961 Dent) - Arthur Shilstone

1961-1965
(Ed) Everybody Ought to Know : Verses Selected & Introduced (1961 Lippincott)
Custard the Dragon and the Wicked Knight (1961 Little Brown) - Linell Nash
The New Nutcracker Suite & Other Innocent Verses (1962 Little Brown) - Ivan Chermayoff
Girls are Silly (1962 Watts, NY) - Lawrence Beall Smith(1964 Dent) - Joan Kiddell-Monroe
Parents Keep Out (1962 Dent)
Everyone But Me and Thee (1962 Little Brown) (1963 Dent) - John Alcorn
The Beauty Part (1963) - Play with S J Perelman
A Boy and His Room (1963 Franklin Watts) - Lawrence Beall Smith
(1964 Dent) - Ionicus
The Adventures of Isabel (1963 Little Brown) - Walter Lorraine
The Untold Adventures of Santa Claus (1964 Little Brown) (1965 Dent) - Ionicus
Marriage Lines : Notes from a Student Husband (1964 Little Brown) (1964 Dent)
The Animal Garden (1965 Evans, Lippincott NY) - Hilary Knight

After 1966
Santa Go Home : A Case History for Parents (1967 Little Brown) (1968 Dent) - Robert Osborn
The Cruise of the Aardvark (1967 Evans, US) - Wendy Watson
The Mysterious Ouphe (1967 Spaldea Press, US) - Frank Darling
A Ogden Nash Omnibook (1967 Dent)
The Scroobious Pip (1968 Harper & Row) - begun by Edward Lear, completed by Nash
- Nancy Ekholm Burkett
Funniest Verses of Ogden Nash (1968 US) - Seymour Chwast
There's Always Another Windmill (1968 Little Brown) (1969 Dent) - John Alcorn
Bed Riddance : A Posy for the Indisposed (1970 Little Brown) - Milton Glaser
(1971 Deutsch) - Nicolas Bentley
The Old Dog Barks Backwards (1972 Little Brown) (1973 Deutsch) - Robert Binks
Ave Ogden : Nash in Latin (1973 Little Brown) (1975 Deutsch) - Ken Maryanski
I Wouldn't Have Missed It : Selected Poems of Ogden Nash (1975 Little Brown) (1983 Deutsch £9.95)
Custard and Company (1979 Kestrel) - Quentin Blake
A Penny Saved is Impossible (1981 Little Brown) (1982 Deutsch) - Ken Maryanski
Ogden Nash's Zoo (1987 Stewart, Tabori & Chang) - Etienne Delessert

As detailed by Books & Writers

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