{"product_id":"the-google-book","title":"The Google Book","description":"\u003ch3\u003eby V.C. Vickers [Vincent Cartwright Vickers] (author \u0026amp; illustrator) with Foreword by Edward A. Dawson\u003cem\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA collection of humorous verses describing the surrealist and fantastical birds found in the Google's garden. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRhymed verse with 24 colour illustrations depicting a wide of variety of fantastical birds; 46 unnumbered pages. Originally published in 1913, this is the 1979 edition designed by Sue Tipping. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVincent Cartwright Vickers (1879-1939), a prominent economist, created the highly imaginative world of the Google bird and its companions. A talented humourist and artist (with an interest in ornithology), his surreal drawings were originally intended for children. 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 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCondition: maroon cloth boards, gilt titles on front cover \u0026amp; spine, illustrated endpapers, binding no longer tight, else a bright near fine copy in a fine unclipped jacket. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublished by Oxford University Press, 1979. First Edition thus.\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 0-19-279735-2\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eSeller image, Heather Thomson Bookseller\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Libraire Heather Thomson Bookseller","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover \/ Large","offer_id":53080662474965,"sku":null,"price":50.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/2958\/7157\/files\/20260203_205222.jpg?v=1770170020","url":"https:\/\/heatherthomsonbookseller.ca\/products\/the-google-book","provider":"Libraire Heather Thomson Bookseller","version":"1.0","type":"link"}