Inscribed to a Pulitzer Prize–winning Writer
An Affair with Grouse
Publication: [Bruceton Mills, WV]: Old Hemlock, 1982. First Edition.
Notes: The trade issue of this collection of essays about Evans's acclaimed line of English Setters and the upland shooting of grouse.
Illustrated from drawings by the author, who worked as a commercial illustrator before he turned to writing. Foreword by Kay Evans, George's wife, who went along on his hunts but shot only with a camera. [14], 217, [1] pages. Bound in undyed buckram book cloth stamped in gilt on the spine and front board. In a brown-paper jacket.
There was also a 1000-copy limited edition.
Edition + Condition: First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a very good dust jacket with a tape repair to the back (verso) of the jacket at the top of the spine.
This copy is inscribed to Neil Sheehan, "For Neil Sheehan—The sportsman's edge honed fine, a sense of what is good. George Bird Evans & Kay. Old Hemlock February 1982."
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: #366383
Price: $200