Georgian Folk Tales: One Hundred Tales / compiled, translated, and annotated by N. I. Dolidze; illustrated by S. Kobulidze, 1956. In Russian.

Грузинские народные сказки (сто сказок) / сборник составлен, переведен и прокомментирован Н. И. Долидзе ; под редакцией и со вступительной статьей проф. М. Я. Чиковани ; рисунки художника С. Кобулидзе ; Академия наук Грузинской ССР, Институт истории грузинской литературы им. Руставели.
Тбилиси : Издательство Союза советских писателей Грузии "Заря Востока", 1956. 432 с., черно-белые иллюстрации в тексте ; 22 х 17,5 см.
Ледериновый переплет с блинтовым тиснением по краю и золотым тиснением заглавия в центральном картуше; иллюстрированные форзацы. Тираж 250 000 экз. (данный завод - экземпляры 200 001-250 000, заказ №498).
Переплет - хороший: потертости и мелкие утраты тиснения на всех четырех уголках; надрывы материала у верхнего и нижнего краев корешка. Блок - очень хороший: крепкий, полный комплект иллюстраций, без утрат.
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Georgian Folk Tales: One Hundred Tales / compiled, translated, and annotated by N. I. Dolidze ; edited, with an introductory study, by Prof. M. Ya. Chikovani ; illustrations by S. Kobulidze; Academy of Sciences of the Georgian SSR, Rustaveli Institute of the History of Georgian Literature.
Tbilisi : "Zarya Vostoka" Publishing House of the Union of Soviet Writers of Georgia, 1956. 432 pp., black-and-white illustrations throughout ; 22 x 17.5 cm.
Lederin binding with blind-tooled border and gilt-stamped title within a central cartouche; illustrated endpapers with two medallion vignettes. Print run of 250,000 copies (this printing batch comprising copies 200,001-250,000, order no. 498).
Binding good: rubbing and small losses to the blind-tooling at all four corners; small tears to the covering material at the head and tail of the spine. Text block very good: firm, complete illustration set.

A comprehensive anthology of one hundred Georgian folk tales, compiled, translated into Russian, and annotated by Nikoloz (N. I.) Dolidze under the auspices of the Rustaveli Institute of Georgian Literature at the Georgian Academy of Sciences. The collection is introduced by a substantial scholarly essay from Professor Mikheil (M. Ya.) Chikovani, the foremost Georgian folklorist of the Soviet period and a leading authority on Caucasian comparative mythology, who situates the tales within the broader tradition of Georgian oral literature and its long engagement with themes of resistance, freedom, and social memory. The anthology draws on material recorded directly from storytellers alongside older archival transcriptions, spanning heroic tales, magic tales, animal fables, novellistic tales, and legends, giving a genuinely representative cross-section of Georgian folk narrative genres. The volume's illustrations are credited to "S. Kobulidze," a printed variant of the name of Sergo (Sergei) Solomonovich Kobuladze (1909-1978), People's Artist of the USSR, twice a Stalin Prize laureate, and corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Arts. Kobuladze remains best known internationally for his celebrated 1937 illustrations to Shota Rustaveli's national epic "The Knight in the Panther's Skin," held today in the Tretyakov Gallery, as well as for his work on Shakespeare's tragedies and the "Tale of Igor's Campaign." His Georgian folk-tale illustrations, comparatively less studied, extend the same graphic vocabulary of dramatic silhouette and ornamental line to native folkloric material.