Little, Brown, 1952. First edition, first printing. Red cloth stamped in gilt and black. Spots of foxing to boards and gutters, near fine in very good price-clipped dust jacket with foxed spine, and abrasion to lower front flap affecting some blurb copy, in mylar cover.. Signed by the poet on the front free endpaper.

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Bookseller: The Hermitage Bookshop (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 214569
Title: The Private Dining Room and Other New Verses
Author: Nash, Ogden
Book Condition: Used - Red cloth stamped in gilt and black. Spots of foxing to boards and gutters, near fine in very good price-clipped dust jacket wit
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First edition, first printing
Publisher: Little, Brown
Date Published: 1952
Keywords: Light Verse Signed American Poet

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