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Chicago: Published by P.F. Volland Company, 1918. Small octavo (19 x 13 cm.), 127 pages. Index. Stated Wartime Edition, evident Second Edition, expanded significantly from the 1907 original published by the Rogerson Press. This new edition was a response to the demands of the First World War, in particular, the national need to save wheat. Hiller was "formerly Principal of the Chicago Domestic Science Training School". Some light pencil annotations to a few pages. In publisher's tan cloth, decorated and titled in gilt and red. Generally very good. Scarce in the marketplace. [OCLC locates thirty-one copies (and only one of the 1907 first edition)].

Washington: The National War Garden Commission, 1918. Octavo-sized booklet, stapled in wrappers (23 x 15 cm.), 32 pages. Illustrated throughout with comics. FIRST EDITION. A work promoting domestic war gardens in the U.S. during World War I, using comics and humor to look at the lighter side of food shortages and gardening. Most of the work reprinted from other newspapers and magazines. The pamphlet was published by the National War Garden Commission, established by Charles Lathrop Pack prior to the US entrance into World War I. The commission hoped that the war garden would counter the negative effects of a large crop failure in 1916, as well as interruptions in shipping due to submarine warfare, and the loss of farm workers due to enlistment. Some light creasing, otherwise near fine.