Vickers Vincent Cartwright (15 results)

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.

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.

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.

Hardcover. 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.

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.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Fine in Fine dustjacket, as new, first edition.

Hardcover. 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.

Hardcover. 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.

Hardcover. 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).

First 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.