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Chairman Mao, Little Red Book, white wraps

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Chinese, first edition, title printed in green & red, sepia portrait of Mao, small tear to half-title, original white wrappers with printed title, lightly creased, light mark to top edge of upper wrapper, slightly rubbed at spine ends, small 8vo, Peking, 1964.

***The scarce first edition of Mao's famous Little Red Book, this one in the first issue white paper wrappers rather than the red vinyl covers. This edition also has the one page endorsement (in black) by Lin Biao, leader of the People's Liberation Army, which was subsequently removed after he became a suspect in an assassination attempt on Mao..

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