Literaturis Matiane (Literary Chronicle). Books 1–4. Editor-in-chief Giorgi Leonidze. Tbilisi, 1940–1942. In Georgian.

ლიტერატურის მატიანე / სახ. სსრ საქართველოს სახელმწიფო ლიტერატურული მუზეუმის ორგანო ; პასუხისმგებელი რედაქტორი გიორგი ლეონიძე ; მდივანი გიორგი აბზიანიძე.
თბილისი : მუზეუმის გამოცემა.
წიგნი 1-2 (1940) : 584 გვერდი ; რედაქციის გამგე თ. ოქროშიძე, თანარედაქტორი ს. ცაიშვილი, კორექტორი მ. ჯაფარიძე ; ტირაჟი 1 500 ცალი.
წიგნი 3-4 (1942) : 432 გვერდი; ტირაჟი 1 500 ცალი.
სერიის ორივე ადრეული ნომერი (მთლიან სერიაში, რომელიც გრძელდებოდა 2015 წლამდე).
ორივე ტომი მაგარი ყდით, მესაკუთრის მიერ შეკრული.
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Literaturis Matiane (Literary Chronicle) / journal of the State Literary Museum of the Georgian SSR ; editor-in-chief Giorgi Leonidze ; secretary Giorgi Abzianidze.
Tbilisi : published by the Museum.
Book 1-2 (1940): 584 pp.; managing editor T. Okroshidze, co-editor S. Tsaishvili, corrector M. Japaridze; print run of 1,500 copies.
Book 3-4 (1942): 432 pp.; print run of 1,500 copies.
The two earliest installments of a journal that continued, under successive publishers, through at least 2015 (subsequent issues appeared in 1949, 1952, 1982, 1986, 1992, 1998, 2005, and 2015).
Both volumes in hardcover, contemporary owner's bindings (Vol. 1: brown cloth spine with tan paper-covered boards; Vol. 2: dark green cloth spine with patterned paper-covered boards).
Vol. 1 binding good: worn corners, rubbed spine. Text block good: complete and firm throughout.
Vol. 2 binding good: worn corners. Text block good: pp. 183-184 misbound between pp. 186-187 (rebinding-stage error); text otherwise complete.

The two earliest and rarest issues of Literaturis Matiane, the house journal of the State Literary Museum of Georgia (founded 1930 by David Arsenishvili; today the Giorgi Leonidze State Museum of Georgian Literature). The journal proved remarkably long-lived, continuing under a succession of Soviet and post-Soviet publishers into the twenty-first century, with further issues appearing in 1949, 1952, 1982, 1986, 1992, 1998, 2005, and as recently as 2015 — but it is these opening installments, printed in the tense years immediately before and during the Second World War in modest runs of 1,500 copies, that are hardest to find complete on today's market. Each volume was edited by Giorgi Leonidze (1899-1966) himself — one of twentieth-century Georgia's foremost poets, later the Museum's namesake — assisted by leading Georgian literary scholars including Giorgi Abzianidze and Sergo Tsaishvili. The journal served as the Museum's primary vehicle for publishing archival discoveries: unpublished letters, memoirs, manuscript variants, and biographical documentation drawn directly from its holdings. Books 1-2 (1940) assemble foundational source material for the biographies of Ilia Chavchavadze — the "father of the nation" of modern Georgian literature — together with materials on Iakob Gogebashvili, founder of Georgian pedagogical literature, memoirs of the poet Vazha-Pshavela, and studies and unpublished autograph material relating to the Romantic poet Nikoloz Baratashvili. Books 3-4 (1942), issued during wartime and correspondingly scarcer still, are devoted in their entirety to Akaki Tsereteli (1840-1915), tied to the observance of his birth centenary, with firsthand memoirs by contemporaries and a photographic frontispiece portrait. Together these founding volumes offer close to a thousand pages of primary Kartvelological source material on five central figures of the nineteenth-century Georgian literary canon.