Lot 125
  • 125

Mao Tse-Tung

Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 USD
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Description

  • paper and plastic
Quotations from Chairman Mao [Chinese title]. Beijing: by the Central Intelligence Bureau of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, May 1964



16mo (5 7/16 x 4 in.; 138 x 103 mm), 250 pp., half-title printed in red, title page printed in red and green within a double green border, lithograph portrait of Mao, rare facsimile of Lin Biao's calligaphic endorsement of Mao's writings; a relatively clean copy with very minor rubbing and wear. Printed red and back wrappers; staple binding stains, spine browned, lower spine rubbed and chipped.



First edition, first issue, complete with rare facsimile of Lin Biao's calligraphic endorsement of Mao's writings.



Together with: Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung. Peking: Foreign Language Press, 1972; red rubber stamp on inside front cover noting USSR leaders are traitors and providing English radio broadcast information, manuscript ownership notes in black and red pen on inside front cover; red vinyl plastic covers — Quotations from President Liu Shao-Ch'i. Melbourne: Paul Flesch & Co., 1968. First English edition; very clean copy; yellow vinyl plastic covers (the color chosen as a contrast to Mao's red bindings and an echo of old Imperial China.