Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung
- Portrait with tissue guard, illustration of calligraphy in facsimile with translation on verso. [viii], 312, [1, imprint] pp. 1
- Peking: Foreign Language Press, 1966
Peking: Foreign Language Press, 1966. First edition in English. Portrait with tissue guard, illustration of calligraphy in facsimile with translation on verso. [viii], 312, [1, imprint] pp. 1 vols. 16mo. Original red vinyl, stamped in blind on upper cover. Fine. First edition in English. Portrait with tissue guard, illustration of calligraphy in facsimile with translation on verso. [viii], 312, [1, imprint] pp. 1 vols. 16mo. 720 million copies of the Chinese text of Mao's Little Red Book were printed over a four-year period beginning in 1964; only the Bible has had a larger print run. “Its idea was originally conceived by Lin Bao (1907-71) as a book of inspirational reading... For several years Lin promoted a campaign that everyone should study Chairman Mao's thoughts, and the PLA [People's Liberation Army] newspaper printed daily extracts from his selected texts that often formed topics for evening discussion groups” (Schiller). Schiller, Quotations of Chairman Mao (Grolier Club, 2014) p. 3