Dean, I don't know about the editions. I don't own any of them. A friend bought one for about five bucks in a used book store across the street from the gun store where I worked for a while. He came into the store one morning and waved it at me. It was a copy owned by a charter member of the National Capital Field Trial Club, a dog club that held trials at my gun club. In the book was a hand written note to the BOD of my club discussing "What we should do with the Ostaus paintings?". I don't know, it could have been "What should we do with the Osthaus prints?". I remember the framed Osthaus pictures in the attic of the club when I was a preteenager. Whatever, my friend reads this forum and will probably post about the book and about the "Osthaus note". When the Osthaus pictures were no longer in our attic, I never thought to ask what happened to them. They were probably trashed by the cleaning crew. Even as a twelve year old, I knew they were something to be treasured.
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