8vo. (Some dampstaining and slight rippling to a few text leaves.) Original gilt-lettered brown cloth (hinges separating, rubbing, soiling); quarter green morocco folding case gilt.

FIRST EDITION. CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN'S OWN COPY SIGNED WITH HER NAME AND NORWICH TOWN, CT HOME ADDRESS. Human Work is believed to be one of the earliest popular works advocating for the equal importance of work in the lives of men and women, with Gilman arguing that the "sexuo-economic oppression" of women was due to men's creation of a system of economic dependence created by men and not to any lack of capability on the part of women. Scharnhorst 1104.