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MAO ZE DONG. 1893-1976. Mao Zhu Xi Yu Lu [Quotations of Chairman Mao]. [China]: General Political Department of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, [1964].
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MAO ZE DONG. 1893-1976.
Mao Zhu Xi Yu Lu [Quotations of Chairman Mao]. [China]: General Political Department of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, [1964].
12mo (136 x 98 mm). [8], 1-2, 1-2, 1-250 pp. Compiled and edited by Tian Xiao Guang. Epigraph printed in red. Title printed in red and green, with green border. Portrait of Mao printed in brown. Facsimile calligraphic endorsement from Lin Biao printed in black. Errata slip in pocket at rear. Red vinyl stamped in blind over linen-backed wrappers. Neat ownership inscription to f.f.e., soft crease to lower corner of text block, near fine.
Provenance: Wang Shihui (ownership inscription to front free endpaper).
FIRST EDITION, VARIANT 1, RETAINING THE ERRATA SLIP and with errors juxtaposing text characters on pp 82-83. The idea in creating "Quotations of Chairman Mao" was to provide soldiers and officers in the People's Liberation Army with an accessible selection of Mao's writings in a format which could be easily carried into the field. Copies of the book in durable red vinyl covers, which earned the volume the nickname "The Little Red Book" in the West, were issued to groups of up to eight soldiers. A very small number of these copies feature textual errors in the final line of p 82 and the first line of p 83 and were issued with an errata. As sheets for Quotations were printed at several locations throughout China to facilitate faster distribution, no place of publication is stated, and no priority can be established for copies in which the misprints occur and those in which they do not.
In his endorsement following the portrait of Mao at the front of the volume, Lin Biao, then Secretary of National Defense, and originator of the idea for the Little Red Book, exhorts the reader to "study Chairman Mao's writings, follow his teachings and act according to his instructions." In 1971, having been suspected of plotting the Chairman's assassination, Lin and his family are said to have tried to escape on board a military transport which was then shot down over Mongolia. A posthumous campaign was waged against Lin in which he was accused of decades of sabotage, and a decree was issued to eradicate Lin's name from history. The endorsement was to be torn out of existing copies of Quotations or otherwise defaced, with all subsequent printings omitting it.
Copies of Quotations of Chairman Mao which retain the errata are extremely scarce. See Han, "Sources and Early Printing History of Chairman Mao's 'Quotations,'" in Antiquarian Book Review, November 2003; and the expanded article on BibSite (Bibliographical Society of America website).
12mo (136 x 98 mm). [8], 1-2, 1-2, 1-250 pp. Compiled and edited by Tian Xiao Guang. Epigraph printed in red. Title printed in red and green, with green border. Portrait of Mao printed in brown. Facsimile calligraphic endorsement from Lin Biao printed in black. Errata slip in pocket at rear. Red vinyl stamped in blind over linen-backed wrappers. Neat ownership inscription to f.f.e., soft crease to lower corner of text block, near fine.
Provenance: Wang Shihui (ownership inscription to front free endpaper).
FIRST EDITION, VARIANT 1, RETAINING THE ERRATA SLIP and with errors juxtaposing text characters on pp 82-83. The idea in creating "Quotations of Chairman Mao" was to provide soldiers and officers in the People's Liberation Army with an accessible selection of Mao's writings in a format which could be easily carried into the field. Copies of the book in durable red vinyl covers, which earned the volume the nickname "The Little Red Book" in the West, were issued to groups of up to eight soldiers. A very small number of these copies feature textual errors in the final line of p 82 and the first line of p 83 and were issued with an errata. As sheets for Quotations were printed at several locations throughout China to facilitate faster distribution, no place of publication is stated, and no priority can be established for copies in which the misprints occur and those in which they do not.
In his endorsement following the portrait of Mao at the front of the volume, Lin Biao, then Secretary of National Defense, and originator of the idea for the Little Red Book, exhorts the reader to "study Chairman Mao's writings, follow his teachings and act according to his instructions." In 1971, having been suspected of plotting the Chairman's assassination, Lin and his family are said to have tried to escape on board a military transport which was then shot down over Mongolia. A posthumous campaign was waged against Lin in which he was accused of decades of sabotage, and a decree was issued to eradicate Lin's name from history. The endorsement was to be torn out of existing copies of Quotations or otherwise defaced, with all subsequent printings omitting it.
Copies of Quotations of Chairman Mao which retain the errata are extremely scarce. See Han, "Sources and Early Printing History of Chairman Mao's 'Quotations,'" in Antiquarian Book Review, November 2003; and the expanded article on BibSite (Bibliographical Society of America website).