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[vi], 55 pp. (8vo) original decorative boards, printed in black and orange. Second book edition.

Signed on the half title by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. First published in January 1892 in The New England Magazine and later in book form by Small, Maynard & Company (1899) the Yellow Wallpaper is today is regarded as a significant early work of American feminist literature, illustrating attitudes in the 19th century toward women's physical and mental health. A largely autobiographical novel, Gilman wrote the story in response to the "rest cure" often prescribed for women by physicians, specifically Dr. S. Weir Mitchell, requiring they "live as domestic a life as possible". Scarce in all early editions, signed copies are particularly rare.