China.- Mao Tse-tung. Quotations of Chairman Mao "Little Red Book", first edition, first issue, compiled and edited by Tian Xiao Guang, Chinese text, half-title printed in red, title in red and green, portrait of Mao printed in brown, 1p. facsimile of Lin Biao 's calligraphic endorsement printed in black, some underlinings in red pencil, water-stain to head of first 8ff., water-stain to top left corner of last 27ff., inscription to rear endpaper, original white wrappers printed in black and red, light soiling, inscription to front cover, 16mo, Peking, General Political Department of the People's Liberation Army, [May 1964].

⁂ Containing all the correct issue points which define a first edition: it consists of 30 chapters which end at pp.250 (text, with pp.82/3 in correct state); it includes the first state of Lin Biao's endorsement, which includes a superfluous brush stroke in "ting", the second character down in the second column from the right - the whole endorsement leaf is often lacking, as, after Lin Biao's alleged attempt to assassinate Mao in 1971, an instruction was issued that loyal Party members should remove this leaf.