Long Years Ago Good Intentions by Ogden Nash (11 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.2.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Book Club Edition. Matched group of four hardcover 12mo volumes of often amusing poetry by Ogden Nash, dated 1942 through 1953, "fine" books in deep red cloth with tiny book-club debosses to bottom of each rear board, in matching "very good" dust jackets which are moderately sun-browned to spines. Price -- now reduced from $27 -- for the four volumes combined into one lot to consolidate shipping charge.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Good condition. Moderate wear. Binding fairly tight, pages age toned. No dust jackets. Crayon scribbles on inside front and back cover of Many Long Years ago. Otherwise pages clean. Pictures available upon request.

Condition: Very Good. Versus, 169 pages, 1942-1949. Many Long Years Ago, 331 pages, Fourth printing noted on jacket, 1931-45. Good Intentions, 177 pages, 1937-42. I'm A Stranger Here Myself, 283 pages, 1935-38. The Private Dining Room, 169 pages, First Edition thus.Light endpaper spotting. Jackets well-sunned with darkened spines, minor chipping to one. Nash, 1902-1971, was an American writer of humorous & whimsical light verse, first published in the New Yorker magazine. Dust Jacket condition good. Hardcover, red cloth boards, black & gilt-stamped cover and spine.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Six volume hardcover collection. Attractive red cloth hardcovers with gold and brown lettering and designs. VG++++/no dust jackets. Light soiling. Very nice copies. Ships at our normal $3.95 media mail rate. Priority and international mail will be more.

4 volumes - uniform bindings. 12mo 7 5/8" tall. Bright red cloth stamped in black and gilt. "Good Intentions" - copyrighted 1942. "I'm a Stranger Here Myself" copyrighted 1938. "The Private Dining Room and other new verses" copyrighted 1953. "Many Long Years Ago" 4th printing copyrighted 1945. Verse. All volumes with price-clipped dust jackets in Fine/ Very good condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. Five volumes sold as a set. Versus was the author's first collection of new verse to be published in 6 years. Many Long Years Ago contains chiefly poems from his first five books of verse. And, The Private Dining Room (1953) is the first completely new collection of poems since Versus published in 1949. Then there is the bonus of even more clever entertainment in the other two books of verse. All books are in excellent condition with only one library stamp on the front free endpaper - No spine label on either the book or dustjacket, no book pocket, etc. ; Ex-Library; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 8vo. Cloth. 5 volumes -- published 1938-1953 by Little Brown. A collection of 5 titles by Nash, filled with his insightful and humorous prose and essays. Some staining and wear to the price-clipped dustjackets. Near fine in very good dustjackets in mylar covers.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Linell (illustrator). Uncommon as a matching 5 volume set of the best of Ogden Nash's works. All red cloth hardcovers with the original red and beige dust jackets nicely in archival wraps with minor tears and nicks to the edges; light soiling; pages dusty with light age toning. c 1953.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Six Book Collection. Red hardcovers with titles on cover and spine in gold, decorative device on front cover in gold with title on maroon background. All in very good condition, no markings in texts, no owner's names, etc. Spines are slightly faded, slight edge wear to top of books, otherwise fine. Small nick at bottom of Good Intentions. Decorative title pages. A fine collections of Nash's stories and poems, most of which had been published previously in various magazines.

Hardbound. Condition: FINE/Very Good. Dust Jacket design and illustrations by Maurice Sendak. "In this foolish world there is nothing more numerous Than different people's senses of humorous." Red cloth bindings with brown band, gilt lettering and trim. As new except for some age soil to top page edges. DJ have foxing to spines and some edgewear. 1 has a hinge rip. "You Can't Get There From Here" also has Maurice Sendak illustrations throughout. US media mail shipping only.