Mintegi Bilbao, Martina. My Basque Country (Chemi Basketi). Illustrated by B. Iankoshvili. Tbilisi, 1967. In Georgian.

მინტეგი ბილბაო, მარტინა. ჩემი ბასკეთი / მარტინა მინტეგი ბილბაო ; მხატვარი ბ. იანქოშვილი.
თბილისი : "ნაკადული", 1967. 60 გვერდი, ილუსტრაციებით ; 20 სმ.
რბილი გარეკანი, სურათებიანი სუპერ-გარეკანით. ტირაჟი 20 000 ც. 
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Mintegi Bilbao, Martina. My Basque Country / Martina Mintegi Bilbao ; illustrated by B. Iankoshvili.
Tbilisi : "Nakaduli", 1967. 60 pp., illustrated ; 20 cm.
Paper wrappers, with a pictorial dust jacket. Print run of 20,000 copies. Price 15 kopecks.
Wrappers very good: clean, light spotting near the spine. Dust jacket good: tears and paper losses at edges and upper corners, not affecting text. Text block very good: clean, firm and complete.

A first-person account, written for children, by one of the "Basque children of the war" (niños de la guerra): the roughly three thousand Basque and Spanish minors evacuated to the Soviet Union in 1937 during the Spanish Civil War, as Franco's forces closed in on the Republican north. Martina Mintegi Bilbao was among them, brought to the USSR as a small child and raised in a Soviet children's home before settling permanently in Tbilisi, where she married into a Georgian family; Georgia, as the book's editorial preface states, became her second homeland. In 1966, after twenty-nine years of separation, she was able to return to her native Basque Country for the first time, and this short book, published the following year by the Georgian children's press Nakaduli, is her own account of that journey: her impressions of Paris and Ondarroa, the coastline and towns of her childhood, and the relatives and landscape she had not seen since early childhood. It is a genuinely unusual artifact at the intersection of three distinct histories that rarely meet in one small volume: the Spanish Civil War refugee diaspora, the postwar life of that diaspora's children inside Soviet Georgia, and the Georgian children's-literature publishing apparatus of the 1960s that gave her account its voice. Material documenting the Basque evacuee children's later lives is scarce even in Spanish-language scholarship, and a firsthand Georgian-published memoir of a return visit is correspondingly rare.