"WORK IS THE MOST PROMINENT FEATURE OF HUMAN LIFE": RARE FIRST EDITION OF HUMAN WORK, 1904
GILMAN, Charlotte Perkins. Human Work. New York: McClure, Phillips, 1904. Quarto, original gilt-stamped brown cloth.
First edition of Gilman’s fourth non-fiction work.
Recognized as "the leading intellectual in the women's movement," Charlotte Perkins Gilman followed her groundbreaking Women and Economics (1898) with this expanded study that offered a more "specifically economic focus on women's plight" (Kimmel & Aronson, "Introduction," Women and Economics). "Gilman herself considered Human Work, which never had adequate publication, her greatest work" (New York Times). As issued without dust jacket. Scharnhorst 1104. Bookplate. Occasional pencil underlining and marginal annotations. Lengthy pencil annotation to verso of final leaf of text.
Interior fine, light rubbing to extremities. A very nearly fine copy.