Mao Tse-Tung: Quotations of Chairman Mao, [Little Red Book]

Proto-type, 351pp. (in 5 divisions, 16 chapters, 64 sections), original cream-colour printed wrappers, lettered on front wrapper and spine, a fine example, [Schiller 1d, p21], 12mo, compiled and printed by the Political Department, Air Force Division of Shenyang Military Region, Shenyang, December 1963.

Notes:
Dated five months before the official Little Red Book of May 1964, and this rare prototype for what eventually became the 1964 version with only 250pp with a type-set endorsement by Lin Biao (printed in red), no portrait of Mao, and 150 quotations (127 extracts by Mao and 23 by Lin Biao and the Central Military Commission, selected from newspaper transcripts).