[Signed] Zedginidze, Elizbar. Selected Works (Rcheuli). Tbilisi, 1956. In Georgian.

ზედგინიძე, ელისბარ. რჩეული.
თბილისი : სახელგამი, 1956. 515 გვერდი, ილუსტრაციები, 1 პორტრეტის ფურცელი ; 21 სანტიმეტრი. ტირაჟი 10 000 ცალი.
მაგარი გამომცემლობის ყდა. მდგომარეობა კარგი: ბლოკი მტკიცე; რამდენიმე გვერდზე სითხის ლაქები.
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Zedginidze, Elizbar. Selected Works.
Tbilisi: "Sakhelgami" (State Publishing House of the Georgian SSR), 1956. 515 pp., illustrated, with 1 tipped-in portrait plate ; 21 cm. Print run of 10,000 copies.
Signed by the author on the front free endpaper, with a presentation inscription in Georgian, dated 24 January 1957 and signed "Elizbar Zedginidze."
Original publisher's hardcover binding. Condition good: text block firm and complete; scattered liquid staining to several leaves.

Elizbar Zedginidze (1903-1983) was a Georgian prose writer whose literary career began in 1923 and who became one of the founding figures of Soviet Georgian children's and youth culture. He was the founder and first director of the Tbilisi Georgian Theatre for Young Spectators and edited the newspaper "Norchi Pioneri" (Young Pioneer). His debut story collection, "Vertskhlis Kamari" (The Silver Belt), appeared in 1927 and gave its title to one of the sections reprinted in the present volume. This 1956 "Rcheuli" (Selected Works) gathers Zedginidze's short stories and essays across several thematic cycles, "Dauviwqari Zapkhuli" (An Unforgettable Summer), "Shoreul Tsis Kvesh" (Under a Distant Sky), "Sitsotskhle Brdzolaa" (Life Is a Struggle), "Vertskhlis Kamari," "Shamshilar," and a closing section of legends of love and heroism together with several essays, spanning roughly three decades of his career from the 1920s through the mid-1950s, illustrated throughout and opening with a drawn frontispiece portrait of the author. Issued by the State Publishing House of the Georgian SSR in a run of 10,000 copies, the volume is signed and dated by the author on the front free endpaper only months after publication, an uncommon surviving association copy of a writer remembered today as much for founding Georgia's first theatre for young audiences as for his prose. It is of interest to collectors of twentieth-century Georgian prose, historians of Soviet Georgian children's culture and theatre, and those assembling signed literary material from the Georgian SSR of the 1950s.