Description
The first English language edition of Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung, known as the “Little Red Book.”
Twelvemo, [viii], 312pp, [1]. Red vinyl covers, title stamped in blind on the front cover. Stated “First Edition 1966” on the copyright page. Silk bookmark. Frontispiece portrait of Chairman Mao, with tissue cover. Facsimile illustration of calligraphy, with translation, by Comrade Lin Piao.
(Grolier 2014, p. 3)
A fine example.
Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung is a book of statements from speeches and writings by Mao Tse-tung (Mao Zedong), the former Chairman of the Communist Party of China, published from 1964 to about 1976 and widely distributed during China’s Cultural Revolution. Approximately. Approximately 720 million copies of “Mao’s Little Red Book” were published, rivaling the Bible for the largest print runs in history.
