Margiani, Revaz. Ivy on the Oak: Poems and Ballads (Mumli mukhasa: leksebi da baladebi). 1946. In Georgian.

მარგიანი, რევაზ (1916-1984). მუმლი მუხასა : ლექსები და ბალადები / რედაქტორი კ. ნანიტაშვილი.
თბილისი : გამომცემლობა „კომუნისტი", 1946. 127 გვერდი ; 17 სმ.
ნაბეჭდი გარეკანი. ტირაჟი 4 000 ც.
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Margiani, Revaz (1916-1984). Ivy on the Oak: Poems and Ballads / editor K. Nanitashvili.
Tbilisi : Gamomtsemlobsa "Komunisti" (Kommunisti Publishing House), 1946. 127 pp. ; 17 cm.
Paper wrappers. Print run of 4,000 copies.
Wrappers good: foxing and age-staining throughout; lower left corner slightly creased. Text block good: leaves evenly aged and yellowed; text complete and fully legible.

Revaz Akakis-dze Margiani (1916-1984) is one of the significant Georgian lyric poets of the mid-twentieth century, celebrated above all as the poet of Svaneti - the remote, high-mountain region of northwestern Georgia. Born in the village of Mulakhi in the Mestia municipality of Svaneti, he graduated from the Philology Faculty of Tbilisi State University in 1940 and volunteered for the Great Patriotic War in 1942, before returning to a postwar literary career as editor of the journals Oktomleli, Pioner, and Drosha and the newspaper Literaturuli Sakartvelo. His poetry draws organically on Svan nature, mythology, and oral tradition, fusing the folkloric substratum of Svanetian culture with high literary form in a distinctively personal lyric voice; his collection Oia Oiale, the poem cycle Ambavi Rustavelisa Ushguls Misvis, and the present cycle Mumli Mukhasa-i are identified in Georgian criticism as the central achievements of this synthesis. The title Mumli Mukhasa (Ivy on the Oak) is a programmatic image of Svan mountain nature and of the entwinement of folk tradition with literary expression that characterizes Margiani's work throughout. Published in 1946 by the Kommunisti Publishing House - the publishing organ of the Georgian Communist Party's newspaper - and printed at the L. B. Beria Polygraphic Combine "Kommunisti" on Lenin Street in Tbilisi, this volume is a document of the specific postwar moment of Soviet Georgian literary culture, when the wartime generation of poets consolidated their voices in small-circulation first or early collections. Margiani's poems were subsequently translated into English, German, French, Romanian, Polish, and Bulgarian, and he was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labour, the Order of the Peoples' Friendship, and two Orders of the Badge of Honour. He is buried at the Writers' Pantheon at Didube in Tbilisi.