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Mao zhuxi yulu ("Quotations From Chairman Mao"). First edition, first printing, in the scarce and most collectible state with the uncorrected text error, erratum slip, and superfluous brushstroke on the calligraphic endorsement leaf. While first editions were issued in several states, "it is believed that copies with the text error... represent the earliest printed version" (Schiller, p. 37). The first edition of Quotations From Chairman Mao, compiled for internal use within the People's Liberation Army two years before the Cultural Revolution, was issued either in red vinyl plastic as with the present copy or in paper wrappers, with all first editions containing 250 numbered pages of text. According to the editor in charge, those in paper wrappers were issued first for the individual use of high-ranking officers, while those in vinyl, which took longer to produce, were intended for brigades of up to eight men. All first editions including the present copy contain the well-known error of an extra brush stroke in one of the characters in Lin Biao's calligraphy. Additionally, some copies in red vinyl see two characters similar in appearance transposed between pages 82 and 83, and a subset of these were issued with an erratum slip highlighting the mistake.On pages 192-3 of the present copy, the owner has crossed out part of a speech by Mao in which he references Liu Shaoqi. As the long-time party number two, Liu was the most senior political leader toppled in the early years of

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