Mao Zedong, signature in an autograph album, with 31 others, 1960-80s

MAO ZEDONG

Autograph album signed by Mao on 8 January 1963, Chou Enlai, almost certainly on the same date, and 30 others

including Indira Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Yasser Arafat (additionally inscribed "Revolution Till Victory"), Ne Win (Prime Minister of Burma), Khin Kyi (wife of Aung San), Bertrand Russell, Lord Mountbatten, Lester B. Pearson (Nobel Laureate and Prime Minister of Canada), statesmen and other public figures from Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Cambodia, and elsewhere, 7 September 1962 to 9 September 1989 but chiefly early 1960s, coloured papers, oblong 8vo (c.82 x 130mm), in a brown plastic wallet ("Autographs"), some leaves reinforced with adhesive tape, some soiling, splitting at hinges

AN EXCEPTIONALLY RARE SIGNATURE OF MAO ZEDONG, SIGNED DURING A DIPLOMATIC SUMMIT. The signatures in this album were collected by a member of the entourage of Sirimavo Bandaranaike (1916-2000), the world's first female Prime Minister, who served three terms as Prime Minister of Ceylon/Sri Lanka. Many of the most significant signatures, including that of Mao, date from the period of the Colombo Conference (December 1962), which was an attempt to ease tension between India and China in the aftermath of the Sino-Indian War of 1962. Bandaranaike met Mao in China on 8 January 1963 in order to discuss the principles agreed in Colombo, following which she flew to New Delhi (Nehru's signature is dated 13 January 1963).

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