NATIONALISM AND REVOLUTION IN MONGOLIA with a translation from the Mongol of Sh. Nachukdorji's Life of Sukebatur

Leiden: E.J. Brill. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket. 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. Autograph; x, 186 pages; Clean and tight in original light green cloth binding with gilt lettering in edgeworn dustjacket. Inscribed and SIGNED by one of the authors - "For my best friend XXXXXX / from / Urgungge Onon." The recipient was a C.I.A. operative in Tibet and Mongolia in the 1950s. Owen Lattimore (1900 – 1989) was an American author and influential scholar of China and Central Asia, especially Mongolia. Born in the U.S. Lattimore was raised in China where his parents were teachers at a University. After his later education in Europe, Lattimore worked first for a newspaper and then for a British import/export related business. This gave him the opportunity to travel extensively in China and time to study Chinese with an old-fashioned Confucian scholar. A turning point in his life was negotiating the passage of a trainload of wool through the lines of two battling warlords early in 1925, which led him to follow the caravans across Inner Mongolia to the end of the line in Xinjiang. In 1934, Lattimore was appointed editor of the journal Pacific Affairs, which he edited from Beijing. The Lattimore left China in 1938. In the early post-war period of McCarthyism and the Red Scare, Lattimore was accused of being "the top Russian espionage agent in the United States." The charges were not substantiated, but they did bring to light Lattimore's sympathetic statements about Stalin and the Soviet Union, which eventually undermined his academic and consulting career. ; Signed by One Author .