Mayakovsky in Georgia: A Collection of Materials (Mayakovskii v Gruzii). Compiled by G. Bebutov and B. Korneev. Tbilisi, 1936. In Russian.

Маяковский в Грузии : сборник материалов / составили Г. В. Бебутов и Б. И. Корнеев ; редакция А. С. Татаришвили.
Тбилиси : Заря Востока, 1936 (Краснознаменная типография имени А. Ф. Мясникова). 199 с. : ил., портреты ; уменьшенный формат (около 17 см).
Издательский твердый переплет с портретом Маяковского на передней крышке. Тираж 10 000 экз.
Первое издание.
Переплет в хорошем состоянии: обтрепанные углы с утратами, обнажающими картон; корешок потерт. Блок в хорошем состоянии: бумага возрастного пожелтения, чистая и крепкая.
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Mayakovsky in Georgia : a collection of materials / compiled by G. V. Bebutov and B. I. Korneev ; edited by A. S. Tatarishvili.
Tbilisi : Zarya Vostoka, 1936 (A. F. Myasnikov Red-Banner Printing House). 199 pp. : illustrations, portraits ; small format (approx. 17 cm).
Publisher's hardcover. Print run of 10,000 copies.
First edition.
Binding good: frayed corners with losses exposing board; spine rubbed. Text block good: leaves age-toned, clean and firm.

A scarce Tbilisi imprint gathering, six years after the poet's death, the fullest early collection of materials on Vladimir Mayakovsky's lifelong ties to Georgia, where he was born in 1893 at Baghdati near Kutaisi and spent his first thirteen years. Compiled by the Tbilisi bibliophile and Mayakovsky scholar Garegin Bebutov together with B. I. Korneev, and edited by A. S. Tatarishvili, the volume assembles memoirs, articles, documents, and reproductions from the archives of the former Kutaisi gymnasium, where Mayakovsky studied, alongside three portrait photographs from the Mayakovsky family archive. Among its literary contributions is an essay by the formalist critic Viktor Shklovsky, "Svet v lesu," written after Shklovsky and Bebutov traveled together to the poet's birthplace, and the volume reproduces Mayakovsky's Georgia-themed verse, including "Vladikavkaz — Tiflis" with its celebrated declaration that he is a Georgian by birth. The book is illustrated throughout with photographs and with a friendly caricature of the poet by the Georgian theatrical designer Irakli Gamrekeli (1926). Issued by Zarya Vostoka, the publishing house of the Central Committee of the Georgian Communist Party, in a print run of 10,000 copies, this is the first edition and the foundational title in Bebutov's decades-long series of studies on Mayakovsky's Georgian and gymnasium years. It will appeal to collectors of Mayakovsky, Georgian and Caucasian imprints, Soviet literary scholarship, and Russian-Georgian cultural history, and holds particular regional interest as a Tbilisi-printed memorial to the poet's Georgian roots.