Lasхishvili, Giorgi. Memoirs (1885-1915). First edition. Publication of the Society of Former Political Convicts and Exiles, 1934. In Georgian.

ლასხიშვილი, გიორგი (1866-1931). მემუარები (1885-1915).
ტფილისი : პოლიტკატორღელთა საზოგადოების გამოცემა, 1934 (საქართველოს პარტგამომცემლობის მე-2 სტამბა). [1], XIX, 307 გვერდი : ავტორის ავტოტიპიური პორტრეტი ; 21 სმ.
სერია: პოლიტკატორღელთა საზოგადოების გამოცემა, № 9. ტირაჟი 5 000 ც. გამოცემა პირველი და ერთადერთი (ავტორის გარდაცვალების შემდეგ გამოცემული).
გამომცემლის ორიგინალური ტილოს ყდა; ბლოკის სამივე მხარე შეღებილია წითლად (ტროპარული წითელი დაჭრა); დეკორატიული ორნამენტული ფორზაცი.
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Lasхishvili, Giorgi (1866-1931). Memoirs (1885-1915).
Tiflis: Publication of the Society of Former Political Convicts and Exiles, 1934 (2nd Printing House of the Georgian Party Publishing House). [1], XIX, 307 pp., with a photogravure portrait of the author ; 21 cm.
Series: Publication of the Society of Former Political Convicts and Exiles, No. 9. Print run of 5,000 copies. First and only edition, published posthumously.
Publisher's original cloth binding, with a triple red-stained edge (all three edges of the text block dyed red — a deliberate decorative treatment, not foxing or damage) and a decorative Georgian-motif patterned endpaper.
Condition good: minor wear to corners, light spotting to the front board; text block firm and complete throughout.

The posthumously published memoirs of Giorgi Lasхishvili (1866-1931), Georgian publicist, newspaper editor, and one of the founding leaders of the Georgian Socialist-Federalist Revolutionary Party. Educated at the Kutaisi gymnasium, Lasхishvili was drawn into anti-tsarist activity as a youth, publishing a handwritten journal, "Stviri," while still a student. In January 1895 he was introduced at the newspaper Iveria to Ilia Chavchavadze, who encouraged the young writer; Lasхishvili subsequently worked on the Iveria editorial staff under the pseudonym "Lali," contributed to Novoe Obozrenie, Moambe, and Kvali, and from 1900 served as de facto editor of Tsnobis Purtseli. In 1905, while in Paris, he co-edited the émigré newspaper Sakartvelo. His political organizing led to repeated arrest: in 1910, when the tsarist authorities liquidated the Federalist party's central committee, Lasхishvili was imprisoned for seven months in Tbilisi's Metekhi fortress and then banned from residing anywhere in the Caucasus for five years, an exile he spent in Kharkiv and Baku before eventually returning to Tbilisi. Under the Democratic Republic of Georgia (1918-1921) he served as Minister of Education, representing the Socialist-Federalist party in cabinet, and was instrumental in founding numerous educational institutions during those years. His memoirs, covering 1885-1915, are a first-hand account of the pre-revolutionary Georgian national and literary movement centered on Ilia Chavchavadze's Iveria circle, the 1905 revolution, and the Georgian émigré press in Paris. The book's publisher, the Society of Former Political Convicts and Exiles, was a genuine Soviet-era organization (1921-1935) that gathered material on the revolutionary movement against tsarism; it was itself liquidated by a 1935 decree of the USSR Central Executive Committee, and many of its members were subsequently swept up in Stalin's purges. Issued in the final months before that liquidation, and describing a political current (Georgian Socialist-Federalism) that had no place in the Soviet historical narrative, this edition is a doubly fragile survival: modest in print run, and tied to both an author and a publishing body that Soviet orthodoxy would soon erase.