Inscribed to a Pulitzer Prize–Winning Author, with Ephemera

The Woodcock Book [Signed, Numbered]

Evans, George Bird (editor)

Publication: Clinton, NJ: The Amwell Press, 1977. First Edition.

Notes: An anthology of prose pieces about hunting woodcock published between 1788 and 1975 and selected by George Bird Evans. Limited to 1000 copies signed by Evans; Jim Rikhoff, who wrote the introduction; and Donald Shoffstall, the illustrator.

[ii], [limitation leaf], iii–xviii, 286 pages. Bound in tan book cloth stamped in brown on the spine and front board. In a brown paper-covered slipcase.

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

This is copy 505 of 1000 signed by Evans, Rikhoff, and Shoffstall. The book is additionally inscribed (but not signed again), "For Neil Sheehan—Time—the land where these things happen. Old Hemlock Christmas 1977."

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: #366392

Price: $200