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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+ condition. Very Good Dust Jacket. First Edition. Chicago: The Reilly & Britton Co., 1917. A square, tight copy, with only a few brown speckles (foxing) on the endpapers. No owner's name or bookplate. The Dust Jacket is lightly soiled but still very attractive, with unusually bright colors and only minor wear at the extremities. NO fading. The Jacket is NOT price clipped (1.50) and is protected by a removable Brodart sleeve. The handsome Dust Jacket illustration is by J. N. Darling, who also contributed the frontispiece. Darling's full-color jacket art features an Iowa farmer in bib overalls with a giant quill pen and a bushel basket full of gold coins for the Red Cross. There are three other plates by Frank Wing, Orson Lowell, and C. L. Bartholomew, respectively. Decorations are by Harriet Macy and Louise Orwig. Pages are clean and crisp with NO foxing. Bound in original green cloth, with gilt-decorations on the spine and front cover. Gilt lettering and golden corn kernel decorations are still bright and shiny. This is a collection of writings by 49 Iowa authors, artists, playwrights, poets, editors and journalists. Among the contributors are Ellis Parker Butler, Arthur Davison Ficke, Hamlin Garland, James Norman Hall, Octave Thanet, Emerson Hough, Rupert Hughes, Randall Parrish, Frank Luther Mott, Henry C. Wallace, etc. Published to benefit the American Red Cross in 1917 in conjunction with the Iowa Press and Authors' Club, of which Hamlin Garland was Honorary President. From the Preface: "The whole is a work of love and representative of the comradeship, the spirit of human sympathy, and the pride of the state, existent in the hearts of Iowa authors." . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+ condition/Very Good Dust Jacket. Illus. by Darling, J. N.; & Frank Wing, Orson Lowell, C. L. Bartholomew, Harriet Macy, Louise Orwig. 8vo. 352pp. Darling, J. N.; & Frank Wing, Orson Lowell, C. L. Bartholomew, Harriet Macy, Louise Orwig (illustrator).…