Gvasalia, Mose. On the Path of the Chamois (Archvebis bilikze): stories. First edition. Tbilisi, 1957. In Georgian.

Gvasalia, Mose. On the Path of the Chamois (Archvebis bilikze): stories. First edition. Tbilisi, 1957. In Georgian.

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Gvasalia, Mose. On the Path of the Chamois (Archvebis bilikze): stories. First edition. Tbilisi, 1957. In Georgian.

$40.00
Sale price  $40.00 Regular price 

გვასალია, მოსე. არჩვების ბილიკზე : [მოთხრობები] / რედაქტორი გ. ნატროშვილი ; მხატვარი ა. ვეფხვაძე.
თბილისი : გამომცემლობა "საბჭოთა მწერალი", 1957. 233 გვერდი ; 21 სმ.
ყდა - მოხატული ქაღალდის საბურავი შავი ტილოს ზურგით, წინა ყდაზე ხის ჩუქურთმის სტილის ილუსტრაცია (მთის ხეობა). ტირაჟი 3 000 ც.
ყდა - კარგი: კუთხეები და ზურგის თავ-ბოლო ცვეთილი, საფარი ქაღალდზე მცირე ლაქები და გაცვეთა. ბლოკი - ძალიან კარგი: მტკიცე, სუფთა, ტექსტი სრული.
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Gvasalia, Mose. On the Path of the Chamois : [stories] / editor G. Natroshvili ; illustrator A. Vepkhvadze. First edition.
Tbilisi : "Sabchota Mts'erali" Publishing House, 1957. 233 pp. ; 21 cm.
Boards with pictorial paper over black cloth spine, front board with a woodcut-style illustration of a mountain gorge with river and forest. Print run of 3,000 copies.
Binding good: corners and spine ends rubbed, minor staining and wear to the pictorial paper covering. Text block very good: firm, clean, text complete.

A first edition collection of stories by the Georgian writer Mose Gvasalia, a native of the Senaki district of western Georgia, gathering nine pieces centered on mountain and rural life: the title story "On the Path of the Chamois," together with "The Well of the Cliffs," "Master of the Spring," "The Shepherd's Hut," "Abragi" (a story of a Caucasian highland outlaw), "The Soldier," "The Herdsman," "The Owl," and "The Acacia." The collection belongs to the substantial body of mid-century Georgian prose devoted to highland and forest life, hunting, and the customs of mountain communities in Svaneti, Racha, and the western Georgian highlands, a genre in which closely observed natural description is interwoven with village and pastoral narrative. Issued in a modest print run of 3,000 copies with a distinctive woodcut-style cover illustration of a wooded mountain gorge, the volume is representative of Soviet Georgian trade publishing of the 1950s aimed at a popular readership with an interest in nature writing and highland ethnography; it will appeal to collectors of mid-century Georgian prose and regional Caucasian nature literature.

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