Kuchishvili, Giorgi. Poems (Leksebi). Tbilisi, 1938. In Georgian.

ქუჩიშვილი, გიორგი. ლექსები.
თბილისი : სახელგამი (ტექნიკა და შრომას სტამბა), 1938. 280 გვერდი.
მყარი საგამომცემლო ყდა. 18 სანტიმეტრი. ტირაჟი 3 000 ეგზემპლარი.
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Kuchishvili, Giorgi. Poems.
Tbilisi : Sakhelgami (State Publishing House), 1938. 280 pages.
Original blue cloth hardcover. 18 cm. Print run of 3,000 copies.
Additional title page in Russian.
Front paste-down endpaper features a striking pictorial woodcut bookplate (Ex-Libris) belonging to a private library.
Condition good: the original cloth binding shows moderate fading and edge wear; the text block is firm, and the pages are clean with light, even age-toning typical for the period.

A well-preserved pre-WWII collection of poetry by Giorgi Kuchishvili (1886-1947), a notable Georgian poet whose early works focused heavily on the working class and urban social issues, before seamlessly integrating into mainstream Soviet literature. Published during the height of the Great Purge in 1938 by the State Publishing House (Sakhelgami) in a modest print run of 3,000 copies, this volume represents the officially sanctioned literary output of the era. This specific copy is notably enhanced by the inclusion of a beautiful pictorial Ex-Libris on the front paste-down. Surviving hardcovers of 1930s Georgian literature with intact, high-quality ex-libris plates are increasingly sought after by collectors of Soviet book arts and Caucasian literary history.