Inscribed to a Pulitzer Prize–Winning Author

Introduces: Men Who Have Enriched Our Gunning Through Their Bird Dogs and Paintings and Experiences [Signed, Numbered]

Evans, George Bird

Publication: [Bruceton Mills, WV]: Old Hemlock, 1990. First Edition.

Notes: A collection of essays about hunting writers and artists inscribed to a well-known journalist.

Evans self-published limited editions of his essays, mostly writing about upland shooting of grouse, dogs from his acclaimed line of English Setters, and his wife, Kay, who accompanied him on almost every hunt but only shot birds with her camera.

[6], 250 pages. Bound in a dark green coated book cloth with a leather pattern, stamped in gilt on the spine and front board. In a red paper-covered slipcase printed with "Old Hemlock."

Limited to 1150 numbered copies.

Edition + Condition: First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a near fine slipcase. Not issued in a dust jacket.

This is Neil Sheehan's copy and it has his standard number, 942. The book is inscribed, "For Neil Sheehan—A way of doing that makes the doing fine. George Bird Evans. Old Hemlock 1990."

A nice association copy. Sheehan wrote the foreword to Evans's book Opus 10. He won a Pulitzer Prize for A Bright and Shining Lie. Neil and his wife Susan, who also won a Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction, had a rural retreat, Wrong Way Flowing River Farm, at the headwaters of the Youghiogheny River, about 30 miles from the Evans' homestead, Old Hemlock. Evans's manuscript "Shooting Notes" for 1982 at West Virginia University includes an account of hunting with Sheehan on October 28, 1982.

Item No: #366380

Price: $250