Mao Zedong: Signed (4 results)
More imagesMao Zedong jun shi si xiang yu guo fang xian dai hua
Jun shi ke xue yuan Mao Zedong jun shi si xiang yan jiu suo (China) [ Bau Shixiu ; compiler: ]
Published by Jun shi ke xue chu ban she, n.p., 1988
- Softcover
- Signed
Seller: Expatriate Bookshop of Denmark, Svendborg, DenmarkExpatriate Bookshop of Denmark
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Condition: Minor rubbing. VG. orig.wrappers Minor rubbing. VG. 19x13cm, (6),419 pp, Presentation inscription, in English, from compiler Bao Shixiu to Harrison Salisbury dated June 20 1988 on flyleaf. Text entirely in Chinese. Study of Mao Zedong's military thought.
More imagesPublished by [Yan'an], Jie-fang chu-ban-she, 1938., 1938
- Softcover
- Signed
Seller: Antiquariat INLIBRIS Gilhofer Nfg. GmbH, Vienna, A, AustriaAntiquariat INLIBRIS Gilhofer Nfg. GmbH
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8vo (ca. 147 x 208 mm, untrimmed, gatherings unopened). (4), 98, (2) pp. With 5 folding charts and tables. Staple-bound original white wrappers, spine and front cover lettered in black with facsimile of Mao's calligraphy, additional autograph signature of Mao. - (With): Typed letter signed ("Jack Woddis") to Gordon Beeson of New… Malden, Surrey, 14. March 1950, 1 p. (125 x 203 mm). The first appearance in book form of this fundamental text on the use of unconventional warfare in modern conflict, with a rare early signature of Mao and compelling provenance. - One of the most consequential modern books, the ideas in Mao's 1937 pamphlet On Guerrilla Warfare have been a constant influence in a post-colonial world. Tactics that included the use of small forces for intelligence gathering, surprise attacks and then retreat, and most crucially the recruitment of peasant populations to the cause, provided a framework for strategy within many of the "small wars" of the late 20th and early 21st century. Mao firmly believed that the addition of guerrilla action to an overall strategy could break the stalemates that occur when major powers are at war. The work's influence was broad in the decades after World War II, influencing in particular Che Guevara to produce his own work on the subject - disseminating Mao's ideas on warfare when agrarian and urban powers collide to the then emerging revolutionaries in South and Central America. - Mao's "Problems of Strategy in the Anti-Japanese Guerilla War" was first published in book form in "Common Problems in the Anti-Japanese Guerrilla War," an anthology of essays by communist writers published in 1938. It was issued as part of a three-volume series, together with "Lun chi jiu zhan" ("On Protracted Warfare") and "Kangri zhanzheng congshu" ("A Collection of Books for the Anti-Japanese War"), all edited by the Kangri zhanzheng yanjiuhui (Anti-Japanese War Research Committee) and sold by the Xinhua Bookstore in Mao's wartime base, Yan'an. - The accompanying letter from Jack Woddis, the International Secretary of the Communist Party of Great Britain, is addressed to Gordon Beeson, a Socialist from Surrey, acknowledging a substantial donation he had made: "[.] many thanks for the seven guineas. I enclose a copy of Mao Tse-Tung's 'Protracted War' [sic] with his signature written on the side of the cover. I am sure that this signed book will be a rare acquisition on your part, and I can assure you that the seven guineas will be put to good use in promoting Anglo-Chinese friendship [.]". Also present is a stamped tan envelope, presumably the one in which the book was sent, with typed label and ink inscription, probably by Beeson, indicating: "This is a first edition of 'Protracted War' by Mao Ts Sung [sic] and autographed by Mao himself on the back page. Should be very valuable someday". Beeson, a respected dealer in woodwind instruments and a skilled saxophone technician, was not himself a Communist, but a member of the Socialist Party of Great Britain since 1931. - Gatherings entirely unopened. Some toning to leaves, small chips to untrimmed edges, some loss to spine. Letter folded several times with apparent wear and some chips to edges, but without loss of text. An extraordinary rarity in excellent condition. OCLC records only three copies: at the Hoover Institution, Harvard University (lacking cover page), and the National Library of China. - 1. Jack Woddis (1914-80), International Secretary of the Communist Party of Great Britain. - 2. Gordon Beeson (1899-1985), British socialist and music dealer based in New Malden near Wimbledon, received in exchange for a donation to the CPGB. - OCLC 78310424.
More imagesPublished by [Probably Yan'an], 24. XII. 1944., 1944
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- Manuscript
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4to. 1 page, signed in ink. Includes original typed envelope, stationery of the "18th Group Army Headquarters" (the CCP Eighth Route Army). A Christmas Eve message to Major Wilbur A. Dexheimer of the U.S. Army Observer Section, Yan'an, sending season's greetings to American army generals Patrick J. Hurley, then U.S. ambassador t…o China, and Albert Coady Wedemeyer, Chiang Kai-shek's Chief of Staff: - "Thank you for your kind greetings and I assure you that I, as well as all your friends wish you personally and your Section the same. I would like to ask you to send, if possible, the following messages to General Hurley and General Wedemeyer: - Dear General Hurley. On behalf of General Chu Teh General Chow En Lai Ten Pi Wu and myself I wish you on this occasion a very merry Christmas and a happy New Year with the same wishes to all our American friends. Mao Tse Tung. - Dear General Wedemeyer. We wish to express to you and General McClure our heartiest greetings on this merry Christmas and also a very happy New Year with the same wishes to Colonel Barrett and all our American friends that we have had the pleasure of meeting. Chu Teh. Chow En Lai. - With my best regards, I remain, Yours sincerely [.]". - A remarkable document of the tenuous relationship between Chinese Communists, American military and diplomatic staff, and Chinese Nationalists during the period when the ongoing Sino-Japanese War forged an uneasy - and increasingly fractured - truce between the opponents in the Chinese Civil War. - Traces of horizontal folds and a little browned in places. Recipient's pencil note at bottom: "Messages sent 12/25. WD". - From the personal collection of the Colorado-born engineer Wilbur A. Dexheimer (1901-74), long with the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation; thence by descent. Sold at Sotheby's New York, 18 Dec. 2019, lot 152.
More imagesPublished by China, 7. X. 1959., 1959
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70 x 110 mm. 1 page of a day planner, with notes on the reverse. Signed in blue ballpoint ink. [With:] 1 black and white albumen photograph (58 x 70) and and a Chinese visa, printed with handwritten entry of name and date (150 x 206). The autograph of Chairman Mao Zedong, given to a visiting Colombian communist, Jaime Velásquez…Toro (d. ca. 2000), who worked as a leftist member of the Colombian Liberal Party and as a representative of the labour union of the Frontino Gold Mines. Velásquez visited China in 1959 as part of a presidential visit by Alberto Lleras Camargo (1906-90), which allowed him to encounter Mao in person. Included along with the autograph is Velásquez's Chinese entry visa, and a snapshot of Velásquez (to the far right in a white shirt and tie, jacket slung over one arm) and his party in front of the Great Wall with a mix of Chinese and Colombian dignitaries, including Alfonso López Michelsen (second from left), later president of Columbia. The photograph is dated to 1 October 1959, shortly after the entry date of the Chinese visa, and the signature is dated in the same ink "Oct. 7/59". - Signatures by the Great Chairman Mao are extremely rare. - Paper a touch toned, with very slight remnants of glue-stains to reverse due to previous framing. Signature bright and clean. - By descent to the Velásquez heirs.
