HEBREW Translation of the “Little Red Book”

MAO (Zedong):

Imrot Hayoshev Rosh Mao Tse-Tung [Sayings of Chairman Mao], translated into Hebrew by Yesha’ayahu Lewitte.

Tel Aviv:  Traklin, 1967.

16mo, [iv], 199pp + [Table of Contents]; red vinyl binding with title and star lettered in white on front cover (slight wear), with an inset photographic portrait of Chairman Mao covered in plastic and mounted also on the front cover.

FIRST PRINTING in Hebrew, although one of three different versions by different translators and different publishers all issued in Israel the same year.  Of this red vinyl version, it is believed about 800 copies were produced; two bindings have been noted, the other stamped in tarnished gilt (the translator s own copy is lettered in white).