When Eve Was Not Created and Other Stories.

WHITE, Hervey; [Charlotte Perkins Gilman].

$1,600.00

Item Number: 145590

Boston: Small, Maynard & Company, 1901.

First edition of this collection of short stories; from the library of writer and social reformer Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Small octavo, original pictorial cloth, slip tipped in on the front free endpaper “With the Compliments of the Author.” Signed by Gilman on the front free endpaper above the tipped in note. Additionally inscribed by Gilman on the rear pastedown in pencil with her 225 Riverside Drive address and a note to her publisher, which she shared with Hervey White, possibly in reference to her book ‘Concerning Children,’ “About this size & quality but with paper cover, gilt boards from mss. 5000 Charlotte Perkins Gilman.” Gilman was an American humanist, novelist, writer, lecturer, advocate, and eugenicist who served as a role model for future generations of utopian feminists. Best known for her semi-autobiographical short story ‘The Yellow Wallpaper,’ which she wrote after a severe bout of postpartum psychosis, Gilman has written works on gender and male domination that continue to maintain their relevance in today’s society. In very good condition with rubbing and a few small losses to the spine and some toning to the rear panel, front and rear pastedown, front and rear free endpaper. A unique example.

Hervey White was an American novelist, poet, and community-builder who was one of the original founders of the Byrdcliffe Colony in Woodstock, New York and the radical artists' colony, the Maverick, known together as the Woodstock Art Colony. In 1915, White planned the first of the Maverick Festivals, which included music and theatrical performances, and which would inevitably become an annual celebration of wildness and unity until 1931. In popular press and local culture, his long hair, beard, baggy white linens and purple silks are celebrated as the hallmarks of Woodstock's cultural identity.