Burnside Rare Books

The Yellow Wall Paper

Stetson, Charlotte Perkins [Gilman]

Boston: Small, Maynard & Company, 1899.

First edition in book form, first printing. Bound in publisher's decorated paper-covered boards. Very Good with rubbing to extremities, bookseller ticket and contemporary owner name in pencil to front free endpaper and pages lightly thumbed. This story was originally published in New England Magazine in 1892, and first here in book form in 1899. It's considered an important early work in American feminism, particularly for it's illustration of attitudes toward the mental and physical health of women in the 19th century. Item #140944156

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