There's Always Another Windmill

1968, possibly first edition, from Little, Brown and Company
Ogden Nash
"With decorations by John Alcorn"
There's Always Another Windmill
Original and purchase price unknown
Worn hardcover with scribbles
C+

While many of Nash's rhymes are clever-- the first poem alone contains "launderer" & "maunderer," "tom" & "aplomb," and "suspender" & "gender"-- it often feels like Nash is reaching, making the rhymes more important than the meaning.  I most like the middle section, "How Pleasant to Ape Mr. Lear," which has not only limericks but a rebuttal from "The Indignant Owl," who denies wooing the Pussycat.  The Peter-Maxy illustrations by Alcorn seem like they're supposed to give a contemporary, groovy feel to Nash's very middle-aged or even elderly viewpoint (Nash was then 66), but they don't suit poems about golf, buffets, and stamp-collecting.  The oddest is the bird with hot-pants and perky breasts, to illustrate the poem about the redundant Latin that ornithologists use, as in "Puffinus puffinus puffinus."