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Iowa City: State Historical Society of Iowa. Very Good. 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. Dark spots to the front hinge. Light scratch to the front cover. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 317 pages .

Iowa City, IA: State Historical Society of Iowa, 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. Good+ with no dust jacket. Clean pages except for some adhesive toning at both hinges and some specking on the top edge of the book; no owners' marks; the full cloth cover has several large water droplet marks on the front, fading along the spine, and some wear at spine ends and corners, including a few loose threads at the spine head, otherwise sound (quite dry, no odor). 317pp., b/w photo illus. One of the Iowa Centennial History Series. "Dr. Swisher has made a hobby of studying old mills, reading about the evolution of water wheels and millstones, discovering the sites where grist was ground and lumber sawed, and visiting silent, dilapidated structures once filled with the roar of whirling gear. The manuscript of 'Iowa, Land of Many Mills' was read and approved by Dr. Benj. F. Shambaugh.