Ogden Nash : Bibliography

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Citations in this bibliography are from Library of Congress Catalog, selected library collections, and Internet based sources.


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Related Internet sites: Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin. Ogden Nash Collection Archives

Written by Ogden Nash

Ave Ogden! Nash in Latin; Poems. Translated by James C. Gleeson and Brian N. Meyer; with drawings by Ken Maryanski. London: Deutsch, 1975; Boston: Little Brown, 1973.

The Bad Parents' Garden of Verse. Illustrated by Reginald Birch. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1936.

Bed Riddance; A Posy for the Indisposed. Illustrated by Milton Glaser. Boston: Little, Brown, 1970, c1969.

The Christmas That Almost Wasn't. Illustrated by Linell Nash. 1st ed. Boston: Little, Brown, 1957.

Christmas with Ogden Nash. [Phonodisc] Caedmon TC 1323, 1970.

The Cricket of Carador. By Joseph Alger and Ogden Nash. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page, 1925.

Everybody Knows the Trouble I've Seen. [Sound recording] RCA Victor VDM 114, 1967.

Everybody Ought to Know; Verses. Selected and Introduced by Ogden Nash. Illustrated by Rose Shirvanian. 1st ed. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1961.

Everyone But Thee and Me. Illustrated by John Alcorn. 1st pbk.ed. Boston: Little, Brown, 1985, c1962.

The Fanciful World of Ogden Nash. [Sound recording] Capitol SW 1570, 1961.

The Face Is Familiar; The Selected Verse of Ogden Nash. Garden City, NY: Garden City Pub., 1941, 1940.

Family Reunion. 1st ed. Boston: Little, Brown, 1950.

Food. Illustrations by Etienne Delessert; edited by Roy Finamore. New York: Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 1989.

Four Prominent Bastards Are We. [Broadside] Worcester, Mass., 1934.

Four Prominent So and So's. Lyrics by Ogden Nash, music by Robert Armbruster, illustrations by Otto Soglow. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1934.

Music for one voice with piano accompaniment.

Free Wheeling. Illustrated by Soglow. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1931.

Funniest Verses of Ogden Nash; Light Lyrics By One of America's Favorite Humorists. Illustrated by Seymour Chwast; selected by Dorothy Price. Kansas City, MO: Hallmark Editions, 1968.

Good Intentions. Garden City, NY: Blue Ribbon Books, 1947; Boston: Little, Brown, 1942; London: Dent, 1943.

I Couldn't Help Laughing; Stories. Selected and introduced by Ogden Nash. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1957.

Happy Days. Illustrated by Soglow. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1933.

Hard Lines. Illustrated by Soglow. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1931.

I Wouldn't Have Missed It; Selected Poems of Ogden Nash. Selected by Linell Smith and Esabel Eberstadt. 1st ed. Boston: Little, Brown, 1975.

I'm a Stranger Here Myself. Boston: Little, Brown, 1938; New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1962.

Loving Letters from Ogden Nash; A Family Album. Introduced and selected by Linell Nash Smith. 1st ed. Boston: Little, Brown, 1990.

Many Long Years Ago. 1st ed. Boston: Little, Brown, 1945.

Marriage Lines; Notes of a Student Husband. Illustrated by Isadore Seltzer. 1st ed. Boston: Little, Brown, 1964.

The New Nutcracker Suite, and Other Innocent Verses. Designed and illustrated by Ivan Chermayeff. 1st ed. Boston: Little, Brown, 1962.

The Ogden Nash Pocket Book. Philadelphia: The Blakiston Company, 1944.

Ogden Nash Reads Ogden Nash. [Sound recording] Caedmon TC-1015, 1953?

Ogden Nash Reading His Poems at Columbia Records, New York City, July 3, 1959. [Nonmusic sound recording]

Ogden Nash Reading His Poems with Comment in the Coolidge Auditorium, Mar. 25, 1963. [Nonmusic sound recording]

The Old Dog Barks Backwards. 1st ed. Illustrated by Robert Binks. Boston: Little, Brown, 1972.

Papers of Ogden Nash, 1935-1962. [Archives, Library of Congress]

A Penny Saved Is Impossible. With drawings by Ken Maryanski. Boston: Little, Brown, 1981.

The Pocket Book of Ogden Nash. New York: Pocket Books, 1954.

The Primrose Path. Illustrated by Soglow. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1935.

The Private Dining Room and Other New Verses. 1st ed. Boston: Little, Brown, 1953.

Reflections on a Wicked World. [Sound recording] Caedmon TC 1037, 1970.

Santa Go Home; A Case History for Parents. Embellished by Robert Osborn. 1st ed. Boston: Little, Brown, 1967.

Scrooge Rides Again. Berkeley, CA: Hart Press, 1960.

A poem, illustrated by Victor R. Anderson. Sent as Christmas
greeting by Ruth and James Hart. Harvard University

Selected Poetry of Ogden Nash; 650 Rhymes, Verses, Lyrics, and Poems. New York: Black Dog & Leventhal, 1995.

The Selected Verse of Ogden Nash. 1st ed. New York: Modern Library, 1946.

There's Always Another Windmill. With decorations by John Alcorn. London: Deutsch, 1969; Boston: Little, Brown, 1968.

The Untold Adventures of Santa Claus. Illustrated by Walter Lorraine. 1st ed. Boston: Little, Brown, 1964.

Verses from 1929 On. 1st ed. Boston: Little, Brown, 1959; New York: Modern Library, 1959.

Versus. Boston: Little, Brown, 1949; London: Dent, 1949.

You Can't Get There From Here. Drawings by Maurice Sendak. Boston: Little, Brown, 1957.

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Juvenile Books

The Adventures of Isabel. Illustrated by Walter Lorraine. Boston: Little, Brown, 1964.

The Adventures of Isabel. Illustrated by James Marshall. 1st ed. Boston: Joy Street Books, 1991.

The Animal Garden; A Story. Drawings by Hilary Knight. New York: M. Evans, 1965.

A Boy and His Room. Pictures by Lawrence Beall Smith. New York: F. Watts, 1963.

A Boy Is a Boy; The Fun of Being a Boy. Pictures by Arthur Shilstone. New York: Watts, 1960.

The Christmas That Almost Wasn't. Illustrated by Linell Nash. 1st ed. Boston: Little, Brown, 1957.

The Cruise of the Aardvark. Picture by Wendy Watson. New York: M. Evans, 1967.

Custard and Company; Poems. Selected and illustrated by Quentin Blake. Boston: Little, Brown, 1985; 1st ed 1980.

Custard the Dragon and the Wicked Knight. Illustrated by Lynn Munsinger. 1st ed. Boston: Little, Brown, 1996.

Custard the Dragon. Pictures by Linell Nash. 1st ed. Boston: Little, Brown, 1959.

Custard the Dragon and the Wicked Knight. Illustrated by Linell Nash. 1st ed. Boston: Little, Brown, 1961.

Custard the Dragon. [Sound filmstrips] Weston Woods Studios, 196?

Girls Are Silly. Pictures by Lawrence Beall Smith. New York: Franklin Watts, 1962.

The Hippopotamus. Illustrated by Mark Corcoran. Chicago, IL: Contemporary Books, 1988.

The Moon Is Shining Bright as Day; An Anthology of Good-Humored Verse. Selected and with an introduction by Ogden Nash. With drawings by Rose Shirvanian. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1953.

The New Nutcracker Suite, and Other Innocent Verses. Designed and illustrated by Ivan Chermayeff. Boston: Little, Brown, 1962.

Ogden Nash's Zoo. Illustrations by Etienne Delessert. New York: Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 1987.

Parents Keep Out, Elderly Poems for Youngerly Readers. Drawings by Barbara Corrigan. Boston: Little, Brown, 1951.

Parents Keep Out, Elderly Poems for Youngerly Readers. Illustrated by Martin Wells. London: Dent, 1962.

Parents Keep Out. [Sound recording] Caedmon TC 1282, 1970.

The Tale of Custard the Dragon. Illustrated by Lynn Munsinger. 1st ed. Boston: Little, Brown, 1995.

Under Water with Ogden Nash. Illustrtions by Katie Lee. 1st ed. Boston: Little, Brown, 1997.

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Biography

Crandell, George W. Ogden Nash; A Descriptive Bibliography. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1990.

Stuart, David. The Life and Rhymes of Ogden Nash. Chelsea, MI: Scarborough House, 1991.

A biography

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Miscellanous

Axford, Lavonne B. An Index to the Poems of Ogden Nash. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1972.

Ben Bagley's The Littlest Revue. [Sound recording] Music and lyrics mostly by Ogden Nash and Vernon Duke. New York: Painted Smiles Records, 1970?.

Berger, Jean. Who's Who in the Zoo. [Musical score] New York: Broude Bros., 1973.

The Carnival of the Animals. [Sound recording] New verses by Ogden Nash. Columbia ML 4907, 1954.

Colors for Brass. [Sound recording] Anthony Plog; musical settings by Ogden Nash. Tempe, AZ: Summit Records, 1990.

Dennis, Ivanette, comp. New Comic Limericks; Laughable Poems, by Ogden Nash, Edward Lear, Charles Barsotti, Dean Walley, and others. Illustrated by Louis Marak. London: Roger Schlesinger, 1969; Kansas City, MO: Hallmark Editions, 1967.

Duke, Vernon. "Sweet Bye and Bye;" A Musical Comedy. New York: Hart, Stenographic Bureau, 1945.

Book; Produced at the Shubert Theatre in New Haven, Conn., Oct. 10, 1946.

I Wouldn't Have Missed It; Selected Poems of Ogden Nash. Selected by Linell Smith and Isabel Eberstadt; introduction by Archibald MacLeish. Boston: Litt, Brown, 1975.

Jordahl, Robert. Verses from Ogden Nash. Music by Robert Jordahl; text by Ogden Nash. The Center for the Promotion of Contemporary Composers.

Unpublished vocal music; for high voice, horn and piano.

Lear, Edward. The Scroobious Pip. Completed by Ogden Nash; illustrated by Nancy Ekholm. New York: Harper & Row, 1968. [Juvenile Poetry]

Look Here. Ogden Nash. [Motion picture] Produced as a special project by the NBC Television Network, 1958.

Kostelanetz, Andre. Carnival of Marriage. [Sound recording] Written and narrated by Ogden Nash. Columbia M 30677, 1971.

Loving Letters from Ogden Nash; A Family Album. Introduced and selected by Linell Nash Smith. 1st ed. Boston: Little, Brown, 1990.

Masquerade Party. [Videocassette] An Ed Wolf production; produced by Herbert Wolf. ABC Television Network, 1955.

Game show episode

Morgenstern, Christian. The Gallows Songs; A Selection. [Phonodisc] Caedmon TC 13126, 1970.

Morley, Christopher. Born in a Beer Garden. By Christopher Morley, Cleon Throckmorton and Ogden Nash. New York: The Foundry Press: R. C. Rimington, 1930.

National Poetry Festival. October 24, 1962, Sessions. [Nonmusic sound recording]

Omnibus. IV, vol. 12 [Videocassette] CBS Television Network, 1956.

An episode of the television cultural anthology series.

Orr, Robin. Versus from Ogden Nash. [Musical score] Composed by Robin Orr; lyrics by Ogden Nash; [Sound recording] Versus from Ogden Nash

Paulus, Stephen. Bittersuite; Four Poems of Ogden Nash for Baritone and Piano. Valley Forge, PA: European American Music Corp., c1986.

Perelman, S. J. One Touch of Venus. Boston: Little, Brown, 1944.

A play by S. J. Perelman and Ogden Nash.

Prokofiev, Sergey. Peter and the Wolf; Op. 67. Hollywood, CA: Angel, p1984. [Sound recording]

"The Carnival of the Animals"/Saint Saens; verse by Ogden Nash.

Rosenstock, Milton. Nash at Nine; A Musical Rhyme. [Musical score] Verses and lyrics, Ogden Nash. New York: Fieldston House, 1976.

Saint-Saens, Camille. Carnival of the Animals. [Sound recording] New York: Odyssey, 1992.

Shakespeare, William. A Midsummer Night's Dream. [Sound recording] Brattle Theater Production, 19?

Sound tape reels include reading of P. B. Shelley's "Ode to the
West Wind" with discussion and reading of the poem by Nash.

Shapiro, Norman. Songs. Songs for soprano solo and piano with lyrics by Ogden Nash. Boston: E. C. Schirmer, 1961.

The Spoken Arts Treasury of 100 Modern American Poets Reading Their Poems. [Sound recording] vol. 8; produced by Arthur Luce Klein; edited by Paul Kresh. New Rochelle, NY: Spoken Arts, 1985.

Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilich. Nutcracker Suite, Op. 71a [Sound recording] Columbia M 30677, 1971.

Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilich. Nutcracker Suite, Op. 71a. Between Birthdays (Children's Album) Op. 39. [Sound recording] Verses by Ogden Nash. Spoken by Peter Ustinov.

Tryout. [Sound recording]A series of private rehearsal recordings of actual performances by Kurt Weill and Ira Gershwin; lyrics by Ira Gershwin and Ogden Nash. New York: DRG Recordds, p1991.

Two's Company. Selections. [Sound recording] By Vernon Duke; lyrics by Ogden Nash; additional lyrics by Sammy Cahn. RCA Red Seal CBM1-2757, 1978.

Under the Lime: Bassoon Quartet. [Printed music] By Erika M. Foin; text by Ogden Nash. Minneapolis, Minn.: Jeanne, 1998.

Weill, Kurt. One Touch of Venus; Lady in the Dark; The Threepenny Opera. [Sound recording] Alexandria, VA: Time-Life Records, c1982.

Lyrics by Ogden Nash (One Touch of Venus); Ira Gershwin
(Lady in the Dark) and original German Lyrics by
Bertolt Brecht.

Weill, Kurt. One Touch of Venus; Vocal Selections. [Vocal score] Lyrics by Ogden Nash; music by Kurt Weill. Ft. Lauderdale, FL: TRO : Hampshire House, 1984?

Wodehouse, P. G. Nothing But Wodehouse. Edited by Ogden Nash. Garden City, NY: Garden City Pub., 1932, 1933; Garden City, NY: Garden City Pub., 1936.

Yankovic, Al. Peter and the Wolf; The Carnival of the Animals. [Sound recording] By "Weird Al" Yankovic and Wendy Carlos. New York: CBS, p1988.

Yankovic, Al. Peter and the Wolf; The Carnival of the Animals, Part Two. [Sound recording] By "Weird Al" Yankovic and Wendy Carlos. New York: CBS, p1988.

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