History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Bolshevicks, with signature of Mao Anying – son of Mao Zedong to upper right-hand corner of title-page, original cloth, 8vo., Foreign Language Publishing House, Moscow 1945

Mao Anying - favourite son of Mao Zedong, was killed by an air strike during the Korean war.

Provenance:

From the collection of Awni Khalidy (b. 1912), an Iraqi diplomat who was: Representative of Iraq on the United Nations Trusteeship Council, 1952; Acting Permanent Representative to the United Nations until May 1954; thereafter, Permanent Representative. Thence by descent and acquired by the present owner at auction.