LIGHT ARMOUR : Playful Poems on Practically Everything

New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 1954. First Edition, 4th Printing . Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Leo Hershfield (Illustrator). Text/Bright & sound w/trace fingering evidence to some 6 pages. Green boards/NF w/light rubs to corner tips. DJ/None. PO label remanent to front cover verso; bookshop sticker to rear cover verso. Anthology of light verse by Richard Willard Armour (1906 - 1989). The amiable, humorous rhymes (many first published in the New Yorker, the Saturday Evening Post, and Sunday newspaper supplements) graze, but never wound, their subjects, are arranged into 6 parts: 1, Males & Females; 2, Hosts & Hostesses --- Guest & Guestesses; 3, Doctored Up; 4, About the House; 5, I See by the Paper; and, 6, Guided Miscellany. On page 67 is the quatrain "Going to Extremes" (oft erroneously attributed to Ogden Nash): " Shake and shake / the catsup bottle / first none'll come / and then a lot'll." Another popular quatrain of his, also usually attributed erroneously to Nash, is: "Nothing attracts / the mustard from wieners / as much as the slacks / just back from the cleaners." And proof of puppy ownership (page 71): "He sharpened his teeth/ On the legs of the table/ And And left, on the rug/ His indelible label/ ... And now that he's grown/ As I frequently grouse/ We've a house-broken dog/ And a dog-broken house". A book of delights upon delights.