wordsworth editions ware hertfordshire england (113 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Reprint; First Printing. Some cover creases. ; Nice tight copy, no names inside. Cover artwork Henry I receiving news of the drowning of his son in the White Ship by unknown artist. ; 126 pages; One of Shakespeare's earliest plays and often overlooked. King John is dominated by the Bastard Faulconbridge, the supposed illegitimate son of Richard Coeur de Lion. Faulconbridge progresses from cynicism to statesmanship as he contemplates the results of John's usurpation of the English throne, the death of Arthur, the rightful heir, and the descent of the nation into chaos. Trade PB.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition Thus; First Printing. Some cover creases, ink mark to inside front cover, some pencil annotation. ; Nice tight copy, no names inside. Cover artwork Francesca da Rimini by William Dyce. Revised edition with new introduction and notes by Professor Cedric Watts of the University of Sussex. ; 144 pages; Shakespeare's tale of star crossed lovers.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Reprint; First Printing. Slight cover creases and edge wear. ; Nice tight copy, no names inside, appears unread. Cover artwork detail from The Favourite by Cesare-Auguste Detti. ; 112 pages; One of Shakespeare's warmest comedies written because Elizabeth I is said to have wanted to see Falstaff in love. Trade PB.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Reprint. Light reading creases and shelf wear. ; Nice tight flat copy, no names or marks inside.; 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. 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 cover creases. ; Nice tight copy, no names or marks inside. ; 288 pages; Anne Shirley is now half-past sixteen, but still the strongheaded and romantic heroine. Uncle Matthew has died, and Anne goes back to Avonlea to teach her old school. Mass Market PB.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Reprint; First Printing. Slight cover indents and shelf wear, some corner creases to one internal leaf. ; Nice tight copy, no names inside, appears unread. Cover artwork detail from The Courtship by Cesare-Auguste Detti. ; 144 pages; One of Shakespeare's best loved comedies. A gentle satire on the artificiality of Court life, the plot revolves around the King of Navarre, who has retired to the country with three of his lords so that they may study philosophy. They forswear pleasure, paticularly the company of women, so when they are visited by the Princess of France and her ladies, the comedy begins. Trade PB.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good-. Reprint; First Printing. Slight cover creases and shelf wear, small closed to rear endpaper. ; Nice tight copy, no names inside, appears unread. Cover artwork detail from A Declaration: an old, old story by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema. ; 94 pages; One of Shakespeare's earliest and shortest plays. A comedy of mistaken identity. Trade PB.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good+. Reprint; First Printing. Minor cover creases and shelf wear. ; Nice tight copy, no names inside, appears unread. Cover artwork detail from Vercingetorix throws down his arms at the feet of Julius Caesar by Lionel Noel Royer. ; 126 pages; Shakespeare's goriest play, a tale of revenge set in Imperial Rome. Trade PB.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Reprint; First Printing. Light reading creases and shelf wear. ; First printing in this edition. Nice tight copy, no names or marks inside. Cover artwork detail from Picnic Lunch Break - the English in India. ; 336 pages; Kipling's classic collection of tales of the feuds, flirtations and petty concerns of life in Imperial India. Mass Market PB.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Reprint; Fourth Printing. Some shelf wear and cover corner creasing. ; Fourth printing in this edition, 1996. Nice tight flat copy, no names or marks inside. Cover artwork 'Boulter's Lock: Sunday Afternoon' by Edward John Gregory. ; 160 pages; The classic comic novel of the Victorian era describing a boating expedition on the Thames. Trade 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.

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. Reprint; First Printing. Nice tight copy, no names or marks inside, appears unread. Cover artwork Abdullah - a Kurd from Bitlis by Amadeo Preziosi. ; The Richard Hannay Series; Vol. 2; 242 pages; Richard Hannay convalesing following the Battle of Loos is called back to London and a meeting at the Foreign Office. His new top-secret mission to thwart a German plan to start Holy War in the Middle East. Trade PB.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Reprint; First Printing. Minor shelf and edge wear, sticker ghost with asociated surface tear to front cover, cup ring to rear, paper starting to tone. ; Nice tight copy, no names or marks inside. Cover artwork Edward Conferring the Order of the Garter on Edward the Black Prince by Charles West Cope, the younger. ; 288 pages; Set in the middle of the 14th century, a swashbuckling story of the eponymous hero as he seeks his fortune and the hand of his lady-love in England and France in the early part of the Hundred Years War.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good+. Reprint; First Printing. Nice tight copy, no names or marks inside, appears unread. Cover artwork The Death of Chatterton 1856 by Henry Wallis. ; 288 pages; Recounts the author's early life and own experiences of opium addiction at a time when the drug was widely used for the relief of pain and before its addictive properties were understood. Vividly portraying the marvels of opium induced dreams and the nightmares which are their counterpoint. Mass Market PB.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good+. Reprint; First Printing. Minor shelf wear. ; Nice tight copy, no names or marks inside, appears unread. Cover artwork Dans le Boudoir by Delphin Enjolras. ; 352 pages; Story set in the hedonistic high society of Europe during the Roaring Twenties. Wealthy socialite, Nicole Warren, falls in love with her psychiatrist, Dick Diver. The resulting saga of the Divers' troubled marriage and their circle of friends, includes a cast of aristocratic and beautiful people, unhappy love affairs, a duel, incest, and the problems inherent in the possession of great wealth. Mass Market PB.

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; Eleventh Printing. Minor shelf wear. ; Nice tight flat copy, no names or marks inside. ; B&W Illustrations; 192 pages; The Bastable family (and Pincher the dog) try to retrieve the family fortunes. Mass Market PB.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Illustrated by Author (illustrator). Reprint; First Printing. Minor shelf wear, some foxing. ; Nice tight flat copy, no names inside, appears unread. Cover artwork one of Kipling's illustrations for The Cat that Walked by Himself. ; B&W Illustrations; 256 pages; How the Leopard got his spots, How the alphabet was made and many more. Originally written for Kipling's little daughter and illustrated throughout by author. Mass Market PB.

Paperback. Condition: Good+. First Edition; First Printing. Light cover creases, ink name to front endpaper, some foxing to endpapers and edges of reading block. ; Good reading copy, appears unread. Cover artwork portrait of Andrew Marvell by unknown artist. ; The Wordsworth Poetry Library; 208 pages; Selected works of Marvell with an introduction by Andrew Crozier and bibliography.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good+. Reprint; First Printing. Nice tight copy, no names or marks inside, appears unread. Cover artwork Detail from Mrs Carl Meyer and Her Two Children by John Singer Sargent. ; 384 pages; Dark comedy of Americans in the Old World. New Englander Lewis Lambert Strether travels to Europe to bring Chad, his wealthy widowed fiancee's supposedly wayward son, back to the family business, but he encounters several unexpected complications. Mass Market PB.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Reprint; First Printing. Light reading and cover creases. ; Nice tight copy, no names or marks inside. Cover artwork The Disaster by George Croegaert. ; 384 pages; A remarkable novel of thwarted ambition and ecclesiastical wish fulfilment as a set of curious circumstances propels George Arthur Rose from obscurity to the throne of St Peter in a matter of weeks. Mass Market PB.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good+. Illustrated by Grossmith, Weeden (illustrator). Reprint; First Printing. Two small indents to rear cover, some foxing inside. ; Nice tight copy, no names inside, appears unread. Cover artwork The Reverend Harold Battiscombe at his Desk by Harold John Wilde Gilman. ; B&W Illustrations; 240 pages; The comic diary of a Victorian suburbinite, orginally published in Punch magazine. Mass Market PB.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good+. Illustrated by Millar, H R (illustrator). Reprint. Minor edge wear. ; Nice tight flat copy, no names or marks inside. ; B&W Illustrations; 224 pages; Five children find It when digging in a sandpit. It being a Psammead, it was a thousand years old and gave them a wish every day. 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. ; Nice tight flat copy, no names or marks inside. ; 312 pages; Two great love stories for true romantics. Mass Market PB.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good+. Reprint; First Printing. Light cover creasing and shelf wear. ; Nice tight flat 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. Some foxing to endpapers. ; Nice tight copy, no names inside, appears unread. Cover artwork Street Scene, Old Paris by Henry William Burgess. ; 512 pages; One of the greatest novels of the nineteenth century covering the period from 1815 and the Battle of Waterloo to the Paris Uprising of 1832. Mass Market PB.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good+. Reprint; First Printing. Minor shelf wear. ; Nice tight copy, no names or marks inside. ; 310 pages; The most charming crook of them all, the gentlemanly Raffles, amateur cracksman and his sidekick Bunny, a brilliant invention by Hornung. Mass Market PB.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Reprint; First Printing. Some cover creases and light edge wear. ; Nice tight copy, no names or marks inside. Cover artwork Interior in the Open Air,1892 by Ramon Casas I Carbo. ; 480 pages; Author's last completed novel telling the complex story of two flawed marriages. The lives and relationships of Maggie Verver and her widowed American millionaire father, Adam, are changed and challenged by the beautiful and charming Charlotte Stant, the former lover of Maggie's husband, the impoverised Italian Prince Amerigio. Trade PB.