Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.
Hardback. Condition: Good. The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine.
Condition: Good. New Ed. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.
Condition: Good. New Ed. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.
hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Good in dust jacket. Used with wear but is still in solid reading condition. NO markings to text. Pasadena's finest new and used bookstore since 1992.
Seller: medimops, Berlin, Germany
Condition: acceptable. Ausreichend/Acceptable: Exemplar mit vollständigem Text und sämtlichen Abbildungen oder Karten. Schmutztitel oder Vorsatz können fehlen. Einband bzw. Schutzumschlag weisen unter Umständen starke Gebrauchsspuren auf. / Describes a book or dust jacket that has the complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc. (which must be noted). Binding, dust jacket (if any), etc may also be worn.
Seller: medimops, Berlin, Germany
Condition: very good. Gut/Very good: Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit wenigen Gebrauchsspuren an Einband, Schutzumschlag oder Seiten. / Describes a book or dust jacket that does show some signs of wear on either the binding, dust jacket or pages.
Seller: medimops, Berlin, Germany
Condition: as new. Wie neu/Like new.
Language: English
Published by Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1979
ISBN 10: 0192797352 ISBN 13: 9780192797353
Seller: PsychoBabel & Skoob Books, Didcot, United Kingdom
US$ 19.38
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Larger sized hardcover with unclipped dust jacket in very good condition. Jacket is slightly scuffed. Edges are a little creased. Front upper board corner is bumped. Sewn binding is exposed in the centre at two points in the book. Binding is sound, pages are clear and colours vivid. LW. Used.
Language: English
Published by Oxford University Press, USA December 1979, 1979
ISBN 10: 0192797352 ISBN 13: 9780192797353
Seller: Magus Books Seattle, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: VG-. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. used hardcover in a dust jacket. the jacket is somewhat worn about the edges and slightly scuffed, has only small tears at extremeties. corners slightly bumped, but pages and binding are clean, straight and tight. there are no marks to the text or other serious flaws.
Language: English
Published by Oxford University Press, 1979
ISBN 10: 0192797352 ISBN 13: 9780192797353
Seller: Saucony Book Shop, Kutztown, PA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Burgundy cloth-effect boards, lettered in gold foil, square format. As issued. Color illus. dust jacket Near Fine with minor surface rubbing, now in mylar. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Book.
Language: English
Published by Oxford Univ Press, Oxford, 1979
ISBN 10: 0192797352 ISBN 13: 9780192797353
Seller: A Small Bookshop, ELMHURST, VIC, Australia
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. DW: Some chips and tears to edges only. Colour illustrations throughout. 26 x 26 cm. Unpaginated.
Language: English
Published by Oxford University Press, 1979
ISBN 10: 0192797352 ISBN 13: 9780192797353
Seller: Broadwater Books, Southampton, United Kingdom
First Edition
US$ 62.29
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Price clipped d/w with rubbing and small snags to edges from storage and handling. Boards and Contents fine. 48 pps.
Language: English
Published by Oxford University Press, 1979
ISBN 10: 0192797352 ISBN 13: 9780192797353
Seller: Sekkes Consultants, North Dighton, MA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Included. Vincent Cartwright Vickers (illustrator). 1st Edition. The Google Book is is a collection of humorous verses describing the fantastic surrealist birds found in the Google s garden. Search engine folks could had some brilliant ideas come from this book! Originally published in 1913,this is the 1979 edition with very light wear to the dust jacket only. As new internally. Size: 10½" - 10½". book.
Seller: The Book House, Inc. - St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Fine in Fine dustjacket, as new, first edition.
Published by Oxford University Press, Oxford New York Toronto Melbourne, 1979
Seller: Scrivener's Books and Bookbinding, Derbyshire, United Kingdom
US$ 62.29
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. Maroon boards, no dust jacket, gilt titles to front, illustrated epps, pages not numbered, poems and full page colour illustration throughout. Head and tail of spine slightly bumped otherwise a a very good copy.
Published by The Medici Society, London, 1931
Seller: Wheeler's Bookshop, Midhurst, West Sussex, United Kingdom
US$ 207.65
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Good. 1931 printing of the 1913 book. Large folio. Colour boards with red titles and colour paste-on illustration plate to front. 53 pp. Beautiful colour plates throughout. No inscriptions. Some light handling wear and markings in places. Small areas of loss to covers' green background paper and to corners of paste-on plate. One page has a light closed tear at top but no loss. All pages and plates complete. Plates all clean, and very striking. Binding tender, including front inner hinge, but holding. Spine cloth all fine. Overall GOOD.
Published by Medici Society, 1931
Seller: Jonkers Rare Books, Henley on Thames, OXON, United Kingdom
First Edition
US$ 1,903.42
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketFirst trade edition. Large 4to. Green and gold dappled boards with a green cloth spine, lettered in red and with a large colourful illustration of a bird pasted on the upper board. Inscribed by the author on the front free end paper; "Poss./ from VCV. 1931." A fine, bright copy, with the slightest rubs to the fore-edge. Exceedingly uncommon in such nice condition. "Lear-esque" style poems about rare birds, a black and white vignette on the title page and twenty five colour illustrations. Illustrations are in deep, striking colours, somewhat reminiscent of some of Detmold's work. Vincent Cartwright Vickers was Director of the Bank of England, who sadly died age 39. The Google is a magical bird creature that inhabits the Land of Google, visited by children in their dreams. Originally printed privately for the author in a limited edition of 100 copies in 1913, this is the first regularly published edition and remains a rarity, exceptionally so when inscribed by the author.
Published by J. & E. Bumpus Limited, London, 1913
First Edition Signed
US$ 3,806.83
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Good Plus. Limited Edition. Limited to 100 signed copies. Book measures 33x27.cm. 34 plates. Bound in original publishers cloth backed, blue boards, gilt lettering and logo on top board. Binding worn, with loss on corners and edges. Internally, inscribed on free endpaper, dated 1914. Pages and plates clean. A good clean copy, in a worn binding. F Size: Small Folio. Signed by Author.
Published by London: J. & E. Bumpus, 1913
Seller: Neverland Books, Waalre, Netherlands
Signed
US$ 5,000.00
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Good. Limited Edition. "The Google Book" by Vicent Cartwright Vickers. J & E Bumpus. 1913 limited edition of 100 copies, this being no 48, signed by illustrator and writer Vickers. Book in good condition, 34 mounted colour plates (including frontispiece), signed by the artist to limitation page, marginal toning and a few scattered finger marks, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed, original white cloth-backed boards, lettered in gilt to upper cover and spine, heavily rubbed and soiled, small surface paper loss to lower board, folio. Extremely rare book famous for both its uniquely drawn birds and for popularizing the word google. Signed by Illustrator(s).
Published by London: The Medici Society Limited., 1931
Seller: LUCIUS BOOKS (ABA, ILAB, PBFA), York, United Kingdom
First Edition
US$ 1,661.16
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketFirst trade edition (second edition overall). Publisher's original quarter green cloth over green and gold paper-covered boards with pictorial onlay and titles in red to the upper board. Illustrated with 25 colour plates depicting a wide of variety of fantastical birds. A very good copy, the binding square and firm with a little rubbing to the boards and wear to the corners. The contents with a contemporary previous owner's name in ink to the front pastedown, toning to the endpapers, a small abrasion to the paper on the half title page verso and the occasional finger mark to page margins are otherwise in very good order. The illustrations remain bold and bright. A surprisingly uncommon book, not often seen in commerce. Vincent Cartwright Vickers (1879-1939), a prominent economist, created the highly imaginative world of the Google bird and its companions whilst a director at the Bank of England (of which he was also later Governor). A talented humourist and artist, his surreal drawings were originally intended for his children, nephews and nieces (although also perhaps as a form of relief from his day job!). A selection of these were later gathered together with some additional Lear-esque verse to create the present book, first published privately in a limited edition of 100 copies in 1913, followed by this first trade edition issued by the Medici Society in 1931. The work is set in the Land of Google, which can only be visited by children when they are "nearly - but not quite - asleep"; its focus is the eponymous Google, a magical bird creature which sleeps in a pool within a beautiful garden by day and preys upon the various other extravagant, remarkable birds that dwell therein by night. Notably, through the creation of this fantasy world, as well as producing some the most striking and whimsical imagery of the Golden Age of book illustration, Vickers also pioneered the use of the word 'Google', decades before it became the name of a well-known search engine. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.
Condition: Very Good. 1979 picture book in dust jacket. 46 unnumbered pages: color illustrations. Originally published in 1913,this is the 1979 edition designed by Sue Tipping. No additional printings indicated. Internally Fine condition, with some wear to the dust jacket. No marks or writing to book. Overall Very Good.