GILMAN CHARLOTTE PERKINS Human Work

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GILMAN, CHARLOTTE PERKINS. Human Work. 8vo, publisher's gilt-stamped vertically ribbed brown cloth, minor rubbing to spine tips, light tap to fore-edge of front board; ex-collection Alva Adams with his bookplate to front pastedown, ex-library copy, stamps to endpapers, copyright page, and textblock edges. New York: McClure, Phillips & Co., 1904

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first edition, fine association copy, signed and inscribed by perkins to alva adams: "To a friend of mine and of progress, Alva Adams, with good will of the author, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1905." Additional inscription on rear flyleaf in unknown hand: "Work - labor - something to do is the only wealth as it is the only specific for contentment." Alva Adams served three terms as Governor of Colorado where he made significant progress for the labor movement and human rights by establishing the Bureau of Labor Statistics which forbade child labor, and passing a bill that ended public executions in Colorado.