Ogden Nash, Santa Go Home First Edition HC DJ Illustrations By Robert Osborn

Description: Santa Go Home: A Case History for Parents by Ogden Nash. Embellished by Robert Osborn. Published in 1967 by Little, Brown & Co. Hardcover, with dust jacket. 56 pages. This copy is a FIRST EDITION, as stated on the copyright page. It is in nice condition. The dust jacket is frayed at various places on the edges and shows wear on the corners and the top and bottom of the spine. There are no bookplates, ink names, pen/pencil notations, or similar flaws. This jaundiced Christmas poem takes Santa Claus to task for usurping the credit that's rightly owed to parents. Ogden Nash (1902 – 1971) was an American poet well known for his light verse, of which he wrote over 500 pieces. With his unconventional rhyming schemes, he was declared by The New York Times the country's best-known producer of humorous poetry. Among his most popular writings were a series of animal verses, many of which featured his off-kilter rhyming devices. Examples include "If called by a panther / Don't anther"; "Who wants my jellyfish? / I'm not sellyfish!"; "The one-L lama, he's a priest. The two-L llama, he's a beast. And I will bet a silk pajama: there isn't any three-L lllama!" Nash later appended the footnote "*The author's attention has been called to a type of conflagration known as a three-alarmer. Pooh." Robert Chesley Osborn (1904–1994) was an American satiric cartoonist, illustrator and author. Garry Trudeau called him "one of the very few masters of illustrative cartooning." Robert Motherwell wrote that his drawings were "so alive that they seemed to writhe on the page with an uninhibited energy .... Osborn's art is a call to responsible action." Osborn enlisted when World War II began, hoping to become a U.S. Navy pilot. However, the Navy decided that he would be better employed as an artist; he soon learned the art of "speed drawing" in a special information unit in which pilot training manuals were produced. Osborn began drawing cartoons of a pilot who was hapless, arrogant, ignorant and perpetually blundering in ways that put himself and his crew at unnecessary risk. The name of this character was Dilbert Groundloop also known as "Dilbert the Pilot." Dilbert" soon became a slang term for a "foul-up or a screwball." Scott Adams credits Osborn as an indirect source of inspiration for the main character in his own Dilbert cartoons. Osborn later produced political cartoons, ridiculing Senator Joseph McCarthy, and a number of presidents, from LBJ through Ronald Reagan. His cartoons for magazines were frequently published in The New Republic, and also appeared in Fortune, Harper's, Life, Look, Esquire, and House & Garden. He was a political activist for a number of causes, including nuclear disarmament. This is a perfect gift for parents of young children who feel undervalued around the holidays. It's not too early to snap up a Christmas bargain! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Our father was a bibliophile who collected rare books, letters, and ephemera for more than 60 years. For now and into the foreseeable future, we will be listing rare paper items from his estate. Take a look at all our items for sale. We combine shipping upon request. Please LET US KNOW if you’ve purchased multiple items so we can combine.

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