The Selected Verse of Ogden Nash (Modern Library #191.3)
by NASH, Ogden
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket
- Seller
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
New York: The Modern Library / Random House. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. [c.1953]. Hardcover. A Modern Library edition featuring Mr. Nash's humorous poetry. From the jacket cover: "The author's own selection of 165 of his most representative poems." With index of first lines at rear of volume. --- In Toledano spine 8 / pale green cloth / gilt titling on green spine & cover blocks / green topstain / grey Kent endpapers / jacket style h / verso advertises 365 titles in ML catalog. Likely published c.1953 (though 1945 date appears in book). ML #191.3. --- An about Near Fine copy: clean, unmarked, and lacking noticeable damages. Price-clipped dust jacket with sunned spine and a little chafing to edges, else bright and protected in removable mylar wrapper.; 12mo (7 to 7-1/2 in. tall) ; xi, 246 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 86370
- Title
- The Selected Verse of Ogden Nash (Modern Library #191.3)
- Author
- NASH, Ogden
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket
- Publisher
- The Modern Library / Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- [c.1953]
- Bookseller catalogs
- >>Poetry;
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- 12mo
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- Spine
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