Selected Works by Zedong Mao, First Edition (4 results)

Condition: Very Good. First edition copy. . Acceptable dust jacket. Slipcase Good. Owner's name on front endpage. (Mao Zedong, China, Communism).

Hard bound, first thus edition, Pp504. Tight and unmarked - a fine copy in and edge-chipped, edge-torn, good dust jacket. 475 grams. We welcome all reasonable offers on our books and also offer local curbside pick-up. All books in stock and available for immediate shipment from Winnipeg, Manitoba.

First trade deluxe edition, printed on high-quality paper and bound in the traditional Chinese scholarly style. Each volume could be purchased separately, with a whole set costing almost 50 yuan - more than a worker's average monthly pay under Mao. Although editions of Mao's works first appeared in the 1940s, a finalized canon of four volumes - covering his activities up to the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949 - was incrementally published by Renmin chiubanshe (People's Publishing House) between 1951 and 1960. A deluxe edition of these volumes was first published in 1964, printed on fine paper and bound in blue silk wrappers, and copies were made available only to senior cadres and generals. This trade version uses the same text, presented in vertical columns on folded leaves. Copies were issued in folding cases made of either cloth or stiff card. 4 vols in 16 parts, large octavo. Text in traditional Chinese aligned vertically. Epigraph leaves printed in red. Original brown wrappers, white silk xianzhuang stitching, front covers lettered in black within black frame. Housed in publisher's 4 stiff card folding cases with title labels and plastic toggles. Wrappers fresh with a little creasing, traces of labels on inner covers of Volume I, edges foxed, stain on top edge of one part in Volume II. A near-fine copy in the well-preserved cases with light soiling and wear.

Large 8vo. Vols. 2 & 5 (out of 9). 640 pp. 512 pp. Original black half calf. First Arabic edition, comprising vol. 2 ("The Period of the War of Resistance Against Japan") and vol. 4 ("The Third Revolutionary Civil War Period"). - Bindings rubbed at extremeties, but interior well preserved.