translator ) Gruzinskiye liriki [Georgian Lyrics], first edition , one of 1,020 copies, device on preliminary blank, title and part-titles printed in red & black, illustrations by Lado Gudiashvili, patterned endpapers, browning to first and last f., cut-down section of original pictorial ?dust-jacket loosely inserted, original blue cloth with Gudiashvili design on upper cover, a very good copy, 8vo, Moscow , 1935. Rare. First edition of translations of Georgian poetry by the great Russian Nobel Prize-winning writer with Nikolai Tikhonov. Stalin, himself a Georgian, admired this work and that may have protected the poet during the Great Purge. The illustrator was also Georgian.