Google Book, First Edition (9 results)

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Mint condition! Pristine in original hardcover (square, tight, unmarked) in a mint condition dust jacket -- crisp, bright, tight -- with no markings and no defects of any kind. (300 pages.) Monograph by the humanities computing expert. A Raleigh native and Broughton High School graduate, Peter Batke earned a doctoral degree in Germanic languages at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. "Born in Vienna, Austria in 1947, Peter Batke moved to North Carolina at the age of ten. After high school in Raleigh he earned his undergraduate and graduate degrees at UNC-Chapel Hill. Dr. Batke worked at Duke University, Johns Hopkins, and Princeton in the brand new field of computer-based educational technology for the humanities." No current listings in WorldCat. Ships from NC. (C-8.).

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.

First 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.

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.

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.