Descrizione

First Edition,Fifth Printing, Offset Deluxe Edition. With photographic portrait frontispiece of Mao, title-page printed in red. 12mo, bound in the publisher's original full red plastic wrapper with the title in gilt on the upper cover and with red ribbon marker, in the original cardboard slipcase lettered on the back in red. [xvii] 1406, [1] pp. A very fine copy, as new, the slipcase with very minor age to the cardboard.

Edizione: the one-volume deluxe pocket edition. the selected works of mao zedong was the standard text of the cultural revolution, copies such as this were distributed widely.<br> this is the principle collection of mao's political, military, and philosophical writings spanning the communist revolution through the establishmnet of the people's republic of china. the most widely distributed book of the 20th century, it remains an important primary source for understanding the chinese revolution, 20th century communism, and the political and social transformation of modern china.