Inscribed to Two Pulitzer Prize–Winning Authors

A Dog, a Gun, and Time Enough [Signed, Numbered]

Evans, George Bird

Publication: [Bruceton Mills, WV]: Old Hemlock, 1987. First Edition.

Notes: A collection of essays, mostly 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.

Illustrated with halftone photos by Kay Evans. [8], 200 pages. Bound in a cream-colored coated book cloth with a leather pattern, stamped in gilt on the spine and front board. In a yellow paper-covered slipcase.

Limited to 1250 numbered copies. Evans typically signed the books when he received orders for them.

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 Susan & Neil Sheehan—Time to pause and savor the sherry smell of leaves. George Bird Evans & Kay. Old Hemlock 13 July 1988."

A nice association copy. Neil 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: #366381

Price: $250