WEDMORE, Frederick.:. Pastorals of France. Renunciations. [Title-page design by John Fulleylove.]. Elkin Mathews and John Lane, 1893., 1893.

Price: US$53.90 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First Collected Edition. [One of 950 copies.] Fawn cloth, t.e.g. Covers a little dust-marked, two corners bumped and small dint in spine, but a very good copy. Short stories by a neglected minor master. The two separate collections first appeared in 1877 and January 1893 (400 copies only). Nelson 1893.19.

Seller: Charles Cox Rare Books , Bude, United Kingdom

WEDMORE, Frederick.:. Renunciations. A Chemist in the Suburbs - A Confidence at the Savile - The North Coast and Eleanor.. Elkin Mathews & John Lane, 1893., 1893.

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Condition: Very Good

Description: First Edition. One of 375 copies. Pink flecked cloth. Spine faded, but a nice copy. Nelson 1893.1.

Seller: Charles Cox Rare Books , Bude, United Kingdom

WEDMORE, Frederick.:. Renunciations. A Chemist in the Suburbs - A Confidence at the Savile - The North Coast and Eleanor.. Elkin Mathews & John Lane, 1893., 1893.

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Condition: Very Good

Description: First Edition. One of 50 copies on Large Paper, numbered and initialled by the author. Grey-blue paper boards, paper label. Corners bumped, spine rubbed at foot, slight water-stains at edges of boards, but still a nice copy, internally immaculate and unopened. Elkin Mathews' printed announcement of October 1894 tipped in. Nelson 1893.1.

Seller: Charles Cox Rare Books , Bude, United Kingdom

Wedmore, Frederick. RENUNCIATIONS: A CHEMIST IN THE SUBURBS -- A CONFIDENCE AT THE SAVILE -- THE NORTH COAST AND ELEANOR. Elkin Mathews & John Lane at the Sign of the Bodley Head in Vigo Street, London, 1893.

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Description: Octavo, pp. [1-13] 14-100 [101] [102: printer's colophon] [103-104: blank] [105-106: ads], flyleaves at front and rear, original terra cotta cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold, all edges untrimmed. First edition. 375 copies printed. A slim handsome volume. Wedmore was an eminent art critic and historian who also wrote several works of fiction. This collects three short stories, all wistful, bittersweet love stories. Bleiler (1978), p. 204 (but should be deleted; no fantasy content). Wolff 7104. Free endpapers a bit darkened, else a lovely, nearly fine copy of an uncommon book. (#116551)

Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.

WEDMORE, Frederick.. Renunciations. A Chemist in the Suburbs - A Confidence at the Savile - The North Coast and Eleanor.. Elkin Mathews & John Lane, The Bodley Head. 1893, 1893.

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Description: FIRST EDITION. Half title, 2pp cata. (1892-3). Partially uncut in orig. red & white textured cloth, lettered in gilt; sl. rubbed & dulled, spine darkened. Pictorial bookplate of William MacDonald MacKay on leading pastedown. This edition limited to 375 copies. Frederick Wedmore, 1844-1921, art critic, columnist, and short-story writer. He writes of this volume 'three short imaginative pieces - stories I hardly call them - are brought together here under one name. Something at all events they have in common. Two, at least, deal with the renunciation, voluntary or necessitated, of a great love - or, I would say, rather, of love's most obvious privileges.'

Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom