China.- Mao Tse-tung. May 7 Collection of Terms & Expressions (Chinese-English), first edition, Epigram facing title printed in red, title printed in red and green with green border, colour portrait of Mao, black and white portrait of Mao and Lin Biao with calligraphic caption in facsimile printed in red, calligraphic epigram in facsimile with English translation printed in red, staining to outer edge of leaves near head at ends, small edge-tears to first leaf, light soiling to title page, edges foxed, original red vinyl printed in silver over linen-backed wrappers with sewn headbands, edges of covers slightly curled, 8vo, Wuhan, Hubei Province, Revolutionary Committee of the Foreign Language Department for Central China Normal University, 1968.

⁂ First and only edition of this bilingual guide produced for high ranking officers of the People's Liberation Army and Red Guards to aid them in debating with foreign journalists and visitors. Vice-Chairman Lin Biao, one of Mao's closest confidants, features prominently in the volume, from the portrait of him and Mao together at the front of the volume, to the section of "Quotations from Vice-Chairman Lin Piao [Biao]" on pp 203-230. In 1971, after Lin was suspected of plotting an assassination attempt on Mao, a plane carrying him and his family was shot down over Mongolia. A decree was then issued that Lin's name was to be eradicated from history. The portrait of Lin and Mao, Lin's epigraph on the following page, and the section of Lin's quotations in the present copy of May 7 Collection of Terms & Expressions escaped the defacement or outright excision they suffered in many other surviving copies. The title of the book refers to the date in 1966 on which Mao, in a letter to Lin, issued a directive for the creation of farms where cadres of Party members from the cities would perform manual labor in order to gain first-hand experience in the process of production. These farms later became known as the May 7 Cadre Schools.

Provenance: ownership inscription of Zhang Fukeng on the fore-edge.