small book with a stamp on the first page “An Item to Hand Over” (only a small quantity were printed and military officers were requested to return this book so others could borrow it), 351pp. (in 5 divisions, 16 chapters, 64 sections), original cream-colour printed wrappers, cover stained, some red ink underlining of text, lettered on front wrapper and spine, 12mo, compiled and printed by the Political Department, Air Force Division of Shenyang Military Region, Shenyang, December 1963. *** This copy is 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 has 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). Chiefly unrecorded in most bibliographies due to its rarity and limited distribution, it is cited in Guo DongPeng’s Outline for Cataloguing Mao Zedong’s Works (Harbin 2006, p.71) identifying two different printings, each with 351 pp of text: an undated edition with no imprint ascribed to 1963 and this version. A later version was also printed in May 1964.
small book with a stamp on the first page “An Item to Hand Over” (only a small quantity were printed and military officers were requested to return this book so others could borrow it), 351pp. (in 5 divisions, 16 chapters, 64 sections), original cream-colour printed wrappers, cover stained, some red ink underlining of text, lettered on front wrapper and spine, 12mo, compiled and printed by the Political Department, Air Force Division of Shenyang Military Region, Shenyang, December 1963. *** This copy is 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 has 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). Chiefly unrecorded in most bibliographies due to its rarity and limited distribution, it is cited in Guo DongPeng’s Outline for Cataloguing Mao Zedong’s Works (Harbin 2006, p.71) identifying two different printings, each with 351 pp of text: an undated edition with no imprint ascribed to 1963 and this version. A later version was also printed in May 1964.
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