2 Charlotte Perkins Gilman (credited as Charlotte Perkins Stetson) first editions are documented on this shelf, from Women and Economics (1898) to The Yellow Wall Paper (1899). Each linked guide gives the points of issue that separate a true first printing of that Charlotte Perkins Gilman (credited as Charlotte Perkins Stetson) title from later printings and book-club copies — the publisher and year to expect, the number-line or edition-statement conventions, and the tells that show up in online listings.

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Women and Economics — 1898 · Small, Maynard & CompanyFirst edition, first printing, collates vii, [1], 340 pp., published in Boston two years after Stetson served as a California delegate to the 1896 International Socialist and Labor Congress in London. Bound in brick-red cloth with a printed paper title label on the spine rather than stamped lettering. The author is credited on the title page as "Charlotte Perkins Stetson" — her married name at the time of…. Later reprintings and 20th-century academic reissues (including the standard modern paperback text) credit the author as "Charlotte Perkins Gilman" on the title page or cover, which the true 1898 first could not have done.
The Yellow Wall Paper — 1899 · Small, Maynard & CompanyFirst book-form publication of the story, which had originally run in New England Magazine in January 1892; Small, Maynard issued it in June 1899 as a slim stand-alone monograph with decorative yellow and orange paper-covered boards designed by E. B. Bird, setting the text from the New England Magazine printing. As with her other Small, Maynard title of the same year, the author is credited on the title page as…. The story's true first appearance in any form is the New England Magazine periodical printing of January 1892; the Small, Maynard volume of June 1899 is the first separate BOOK edition, which is what is generally meant by "first edition" for this title. Small, Maynard issued a second printing/edition from the same setting in 1901, again in yellow decorated paper-covered boards lettered in black, so a copy's printing should be confirmed from the title page and imprint date rather than assumed from the cover design alone.

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