Zedong (Mao)

Mao Zhu Xi Yu Lu, or Quotations of Chairman Mao (Mao's "Little Red Book").

first edition, 250pp., text in Chinese, half-title printed in red, title-page with text in red and green and framed in green with small circular ownership stamp, , plain lithographed frontispiece of a photographic portrait of Chairman Mao, this portrait in an unrecorded light printing [according to Schiller] rare facsimile of Lin Biao's calligraphic endorsement of Mao's writings in the uncorrected state, original white paper wrappers, printed in red and black, light damp-stain to upper fore-edge and margin throughout, cover creased at spine and slightly soiled, 142 x 102mm., (Beijing) (Printed and edited by the Central Intelligence Bureau of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, May 1964); Another copy, first edition second issue, this copy with the facsimile of Lin Biao’s endorsement, replaced with another also uncorrected genuine endorsement leaf from another copy where it had been removed, binding in red-vinyl plastic wrapper, well read,139 x 101mm., (Printed and edited by the Central Intelligence Bureau of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, May 1964) (2)

***This first edition in the printed wrappers was intended for high-ranking officers only, It was followed a few days later by the more familiar edition in the red-vinyl textured plastic binding.