The first American edition of Soviet Russia in China: A Summing-Up At Seventy, signed by Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek.
Octavo, 432pp. Blue cloth, title stamped in gilt on spine. Stated “first printing 1958” on copyright page. Offsetting to endpapers, dust jacket previously taped down. Light toning to leafends, some foxing to endpapers. Complete with 9 fold-out maps of China and Taiwan, from 1923-1949. In the publisher’s dust jacket, $6.00 on front flap, tape marks to both flaps, bright illustrations, a near fine example.
Stamp on front free endpaper, with “Compliments of Gen. Peng Meng-Chi Ca, Chief of the General Staff, Ministry of National Defense, The Republic of China.” This copy is signed by twice by Chiang Kai-shek on the half title, in Mandarin and English, with date below in English.
This work was translated under the direction of Madame Chiang Kai-shek. It was preceded by a condensed version in 1957, also published by Farrar, Straus and Cudahy. The work from 1958 was revised and enlarged to provide “the English reading public a more exact and idiomatic rendering of the book from the original Chinese.”
Chiang Kai-shek (1887-1975) rose to power as a member of the Kuomintang (KMT) and became the leader of the Nationalist government in China after the death of Sun Yat-sen in 1925. Chiang led the Northern Expedition to unify China under the KMT, and subsequently, he served as the leader of the Republic of China during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945) and the Chinese Civil War (1945-1949). After the KMT’s defeat by the Communist Party of China, Chiang fled to Taiwan in 1949, where he continued to lead the Republic of China until his death in 1975.
Peng Meng-chi (1908-1997) was a diplomat of the Republic of China and a member of the Kuomintang. Following the retreat of the Republic of China to Taiwan, Peng served as commander of Kaohsiung Fortress in Taiwan. During and in the aftermath of the February 28 incident in 1947, he pursued a suppressive policy and ordered a massacre in Kaohsiung, earning him the nickname "Butcher of Kaohsiung" (高雄屠夫). This titled was signed during the years that Peng was the Chief of the General Staff, Ministry of National Defense of the Republic of China in the 50s to 60s.
This title is housed in a royal blue quarter morocco solander box with chemise by the Chelsea Bindery. Dustwrapper now covered in protective mylar.
The first American edition of Soviet Russia in China: A Summing-Up At Seventy, signed by Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek.
Octavo, 432pp. Blue cloth, title stamped in gilt on spine. Stated “first printing 1958” on copyright page. Offsetting to endpapers, dust jacket previously taped down. Light toning to leafends, some foxing to endpapers. Complete with 9 fold-out maps of China and Taiwan, from 1923-1949. In the publisher’s dust jacket, $6.00 on front flap, tape marks to both flaps, bright illustrations, a near fine example.
Stamp on front free endpaper, with “Compliments of Gen. Peng Meng-Chi Ca, Chief of the General Staff, Ministry of National Defense, The Republic of China.” This copy is signed by twice by Chiang Kai-shek on the half title, in Mandarin and English, with date below in English.
This work was translated under the direction of Madame Chiang Kai-shek. It was preceded by a condensed version in 1957, also published by Farrar, Straus and Cudahy. The work from 1958 was revised and enlarged to provide “the English reading public a more exact and idiomatic rendering of the book from the original Chinese.”
Chiang Kai-shek (1887-1975) rose to power as a member of the Kuomintang (KMT) and became the leader of the Nationalist government in China after the death of Sun Yat-sen in 1925. Chiang led the Northern Expedition to unify China under the KMT, and subsequently, he served as the leader of the Republic of China during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945) and the Chinese Civil War (1945-1949). After the KMT’s defeat by the Communist Party of China, Chiang fled to Taiwan in 1949, where he continued to lead the Republic of China until his death in 1975.
Peng Meng-chi (1908-1997) was a diplomat of the Republic of China and a member of the Kuomintang. Following the retreat of the Republic of China to Taiwan, Peng served as commander of Kaohsiung Fortress in Taiwan. During and in the aftermath of the February 28 incident in 1947, he pursued a suppressive policy and ordered a massacre in Kaohsiung, earning him the nickname "Butcher of Kaohsiung" (高雄屠夫). This titled was signed during the years that Peng was the Chief of the General Staff, Ministry of National Defense of the Republic of China in the 50s to 60s.
This title is housed in a royal blue quarter morocco solander box with chemise by the Chelsea Bindery. Dustwrapper now covered in protective mylar.
