wordsworth editions ltd hertfordshire england (34 results)

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Light rubbing to the covers. Mild page toning. Otherwise a clean, tight copy with an uncreased spine.

Soft cover. Condition: Almost Like New. Paperback Reprint Edition. Paperback book is a clean tight unmarked copy.

Pictorial Cover. Condition: Fine. The firearms in this book represent the best and most famous weapons seen since World War II. The book shows the ingenuity, craftsmanship and technical brilliance used to develop these firearms. Photographs and illustrations are included. This copy is clean and solid.

Glossy Hardback. Condition: As New. First Edition. 96pp "A handbook and a work of reference, this highly illustrated publication is dedicated to those motor mechanics and engineering geniuses" Completely new productions-hightly illustrated in color throughout-international contents-appropriate technical information.

Soft cover. Condition: As New. First Softcover Edition. Softcover book is a clean tight unmarked copy.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Like New. 'A Portrait of Cesare Borgia', 1475-1407, by Altobello Meloni (Cover Illustration); tony collins@thedesignhouse.org.uk (Cover Design) (illustrator). Wordsworth Editions Limited 1997. 143 pp. Flawless copy.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 394 pp. Flawless, fresh, sharp, tight copy with crisp pages and clean text. Small cut on top and bottom of spine.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good+. Reprint; First Printing. Light cover creases, light foxing to endpapers and edges of reading block. ; Nice tight flat copy, no names inside, appears unread. ; 192 pages; Katy couldn't believe her luck when she was invited to spend a year touring Europe. Mass Market PB.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Reprint; First Printing. Light reading creases and shelf wear, light foxing to endpapers and edges of reading block. ; First printing in this edition, 1994. Nice tight copy, no names inside. Cover design by Tony Selina. ; 256 pages; Sara is sent by her rich father in India to attend boarding school in England. She is soon nicknamed the "Little Princess", but Sara has more than wealth, she also has a quick mind and imagination. So when poverty strikes her imagination helps her survive. By the author of The Secret Garden. Mass Market PB.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good+. Reprint; First Printing. Minor reading creases. ; Nice tight copy, no names or marks inside. ; 288 pages; A dashing tale of smuggling on the Dorset coast during the eighteenth century. Mass Market PB.

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. This work is the history of arms and armour beginning with the inventions of prehistoric man--the stone chisels and adzes which served both as peaceful tools and ad hoc weaponry. Next is the Assyrians, who created the first military state. The book follows the line through Greek, Roman, Saxon and Norse developments; then the Norman period in the Middle Ages, and up to the invention of gunpowder and firearms. The book contains photographs, illustrations, line drawings, footnotes, and an index. This copy is clean and solid.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good+. Reprint; First Printing. Minor shelf wear, paper starting to tone. ; Nice tight copy, no names or marks inside, appears unread. Cover artwork detail from Robin Hood by Daniel Maclise. ; B&W Illustrations; 392 pages; Robin Hood is the best-loved outlaw of all time. In this illustrated edition Henry Gilbert tells of the adventures of the Merry Men of Sherwood Forest - Robin himself, Little John, Friar Tuck, Will Scarlet, and Alan-a-Dale, as well as Maid Marian, good King Richard, and Robin's deadly enemies Guy of Gisborne and the evil Sheriff of Nottingham. Mass Market PB.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Reprint; First Printing. Some cover creases, missing top of front endpaper, ink name to top of first page. ; Nice tight copy. Wrap around cover artwork by Stephen Seymour. ; 252 pages; Publishing Editor Tara Deane is given the chance to prove she can head up the Light Fiction division when her boss sends her on a mission to Andorra. She has to find out why reclusive best-selling author Brett Hardacre seems incapable of finishing his latest novel. But when she finally meets the elusive novelist all her plans come unstuck. Mass Market PB.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good+. Reprint; First Printing. Minor edge and shelf wear. ; First printing in this mass market edition with no other printings listed, 1994. Nice tight flat copy, no names or marks inside, appears unread. Cover artwork The House in the Woods by Albert Bierstadt. ; The Anne of Green Gables Series; Vol. 1; 352 pages; The heartwarming story of the red-haired orphan who comes to live with the Cuthberts. Mass Market PB.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Reprint; First Printing. Light reading and cover creases. ; First printing in this edition, 1992. Nice tight copy, no names or marks inside. Cover artwork detail from Theatre Design, St James Theatre, 1936 by Rex Whistler. ; 496 pages; The story of the young girl Fanny and her rich relations that give her a home but not the love she needs. Mass Market PB.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good+. Reprint; First Printing. Light reading creasing and shelf wear. ; First printing of omnibus mass market edition, 1994. Nice tight copy, no names or marks inside. Wrap around cover artwork by George Fryer. ; 320 pages; Two great love stories for true romantics. Mass Market PB.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good+. Reprint; First Printing. Light cover creasing and shelf wear. ; First printing in this edition, 1994. Nice tight copy, no names or marks inside. Wrap around cover artwork by Peter Gibson. ; 320 pages; When lawyer Byford dies, his two daughters face a life of genteel poverty. But they have spirit and a sense of adventure, fit for the new age in which they live. Mass Market PB.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good-. Reprint; First Printing. Light reading and cover creases, small splits to spine extremities, some foxing to endpapers and edges of reading block. ; Nice tight copy, no names inside. Cover artwork by Christopher Gurshin. ; Wordsworth American Classics; 240 pages; Gothic novel of a New England family and their ancestral home. Inspired by a gabled house in Salem that belonging to Hawthorne's cousin Susanna Ingersoll and by ancestors of Hawthorne who had played a part in the Salem Witch Trials of 1692. Stated as being a strong influence on the work of H. P. Lovecraft. Introduction by Michael Boughn.

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. Illustrated by Millar, H R (illustrator). Reprint; First Printing. Minor crease to front cover. ; Nice tight copy, no names or marks inside, appears unread. ; B&W Illustrations; 224 pages; Five children find an old carpet with a strange egg inside. The egg hatches into the Phoenix, an ancient and honourable bird that aids the children in their adventures. As the carpet is magical and can travel anywhere through time and space. Trade PB.

Paperback. Condition: Good+. Reprint; First Printing. Light reading creases, some shelf and edge wear, front endpaper heavily toned, gutter slightly cracked at introduction. Some heavy foxing to inside covers, endpapers and edges of reading block. ; First printing in this edition with no other printings listed, 1994. Good reading copy, no names inside. Cover artwork Gathering Primroses by Annie Henniker. Heavy book and priced accordingly. ; The Barcester Chronicles; Vol. 5; 576 pages; A novel that mixes requited love with unrequited love, disgrace, scandal and near-disgrace. The ambitious Adolphus Crosbie and the hobbledehoy Johnny Eames both love the beautiful Lily Dale.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good-. Reprint; First Printing. Some reading creases and heavy corner crease to rear cover, light shelf wear, sunned spine, paper edge toned with some foxing to endpapers and edges of reading block. ; First printing in this edition, 1996. Nice tight copy, no names inside. Cover artwork detail from The Pride of Dijon by William John Hennesy. Heavy book and priced accordingly. ; The Pallister Novels; Vol. 2; 576 pages; Phineas Finn, a red-blooded young Irishman with charm and good looks is elected to Parliament by his local borough. In London he wins the love of the influential Lady Laura Kennedy. With her help his career advances, but this is secondary to the social and sexual intrigues that beset him. The second of Trollope's political novels, but the first to deal with the actual workings of Parliament itself with interesting thumb-nail sketches of leading politicians of the day including Gladstone and Disraeli.

Paperback. Condition: Good+. First Edition; First Printing. Creases to rear cover, sunned spine, some foxing to endpapers and edges of reading block. ; Nice tight copy, no names inside, appears unread. Cover design by Colourways. Heavy book and priced accordingly. ; Wordsworth Reference; B&W Illustrations; First volume of an encyclopedia, an arcane tome that was once used to look up information.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Reprint; First Printing. Light shelf and edge wear, light reading and cover creases, some foxing to endpapers and edges of reading block. ; Nice tight copy, no names inside. Cover artwork Moonlight Walk by John Atkinson Grimshaw. ; Wordsworth Classics; 368 pages; Collection of over thirty classic ghost stories.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition; First Printing. Missing DJ if issued, spine corners lightly bumped, a few pages inside show signs of kitchen spills. ; First edition, first printing. Gloss pictorial boards. Nice tight copy, no names inside. Cover and internal photos uncredited. ; Step by Step Classic Kitchen; Colour Photographs; 80 pages; A wonderful collection of French recipes for poultry and game to tantalise the taste buds.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good-. Reprint; First Printing. Some shelf and edge wear, old ink price to title. ; First printing in this edition with no other printings listed, 1994. Nice tight copy, no names inside, appears unread. Cover artwork Gathering Primroses by Annie Henniker. Heavy book and priced accordingly. ; The Barcester Chronicles; Vol. 5; 576 pages; A novel that mixes requited love with unrequited love, disgrace, scandal and near-disgrace. The ambitious Adolphus Crosbie and the hobbledehoy Johnny Eames both love the beautiful Lily Dale.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good+. Reprint; First Printing. Minor shelf and edge wear, one crease to rear cover. ; Nice tight flat copy, no names or marks inside. ; 354 pages; A classic of Chinese Erotic literature first published in 1634, concerning one man and six women, a comedy of manners as well as a dialogue on religion, sex and morals. Trade PB.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Reprint; First Printing. Some reading and cover creases, some edge and shelf wear with splits to spine extremities, old ink price to front endpaper. ; Good reading copy, no names inside. Cover artwork detail from Forfeits by Eyre Crowe. Heavy book and priced accordingly. ; 784 pages; A surprisingly mdern feeling satirical novel of financial, social and political corruption.

Slip Case. Condition: Very Good - Fine. No Jacket. Robinson, Charles & Lawrie Taylor (illustrator). First Edition. A two volume set of classics, slip cased with deluxe decorated binding. Minimal wear. A very good or better copy.

Condition: Near Fine. A near fine paperback copy with mild spine creases and remainder marks on bottom edge. Bindings are tight and straight, minimal wear to covers. A lovely copy for a fan.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Published by Wordsworth Editions Limited of Hertfordshire, England in 2000. Soft cover, so no Dust Jacket. Book 1st published in 1973. Book condition: Near Fine. Both cover and inside pages are in goo0d order. See photograph. Dims: 245mm x 190mm x 10mm. 208 pages.