Baratashvili, N. Works: Poems; The Fate of Kartli; Letters (Tkhzulebani). 150th-anniversary jubilee edition; illustrated by Lado Grigolia, 1968. In Georgian.

ბარათაშვილი, ნიკოლოზ (1817-1845). თხზულებანი : ლექსები, პოემა, წერილები / სარედაქციო კოლეგია: გრიგოლ აბაშიძე და სხვანი ; ტექსტი დაადგინა და ნარკვევი დაურთო პავლე ინგოროყვამ ; ილუსტრაციები ლადო გრიგოლიასი.
თბილისი : გამომცემლობა "საბჭოთა საქართველო", 1968. 286 გვერდი, ილუსტრაციებით ; 26 სმ.
მაგარი ყდა, ვერცხლისფერი ტისნებით. სუპერ-გარეკანი თანდართული. ტირაჟი 30 000 ც. 
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Baratashvili, Nikoloz (1817-1845). Works : Poems; The Fate of Kartli [narrative poem]; Letters / editorial board Grigol Abashidze and others ; text established, with an accompanying study, by Pavle Ingorokva ; illustrated by Lado Grigolia.
Tbilisi : "Sabchota Sakartvelo" Publishing House, 1968. 286 pp., illustrated ; 26 cm.
Hardcover, blocked in silver. Dust jacket present. Print run of 30,000 copies. 
Binding very good: blocking bright and crisp, light spotting to rear board. Dust jacket fair: substantial tears and paper losses at the upper corners and edges. Text block very good: clean, firm and complete.

The standard mid-Soviet critical edition of the complete works of Nikoloz Baratashvili (1817-1845), the founding figure of Georgian literary Romanticism, issued to mark the 150th anniversary of his birth. Baratashvili wrote almost his entire body of work between the ages of nineteen and twenty-eight, before his early death at Ganja; his poems circulated only in manuscript during his lifetime and first reached print posthumously in the 1850s. This edition gathers the full corpus established from the surviving autograph manuscripts: the lyric poems, the sole narrative poem "Bedi Kartlisa" (The Fate of Kartli), a set of textual variants, and eighteen private letters written between 1837 and 1845 to Grigol Orbeliani and other correspondents, together with commentary by the poet Giorgi Leonidze, founding director of the Georgian State Museum of Literature, and two accompanying studies by Pavle Ingorokva on the manuscript sources and the textual history of Baratashvili's works. Ingorokva had already established an earlier text of Baratashvili in 1930; this 1968 redaction is counted among the small number of principal editions of the poet in Georgian textual scholarship, spanning from the first attempt of 1876 through to 1972. The dust jacket, illustrated by Lado Grigolia, reproduces the poet's own facsimile signature above an image of a winged horse racing beneath a star, a direct visual reference to "Merani," Baratashvili's best-known poem and the touchstone of Georgian Romantic verse, in which a fate-driven steed carries the poet's spirit across an indifferent world.