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[GEORGIAN AVANT-GARDE THEATRE] Teatr Rustaveli [i.e. The Rustaveli Theatre]
Tiflis: Gosizdat, 1930. Item #87
79 pp. 19x13 cm. 1 of 3000 copies. Original wrapper illustrated by Irakly Gamrikeli. Illustrations of the decorations from different performances throughout the text. Very good. Some tears at the edges of the wrapper.
Very rare.
The book is dedicated to the main Georgian theatre of the time in its golden age. The director of the majority of performances of the time was Kote Mardzhanishvili (1872-1933) the founder of the national theatre. The plays like Salome, Hamlet and others were among the best in his career. They all were decorated by Irakly Gamrikeli (1894-1943) who did the wrapper for this book as well. Gamrikeli preferred avant-garde style in his work, influenced by Stenberg brothers and Kirill Zdanevich.
One copy in USA according to WorldCat (Harvard College Library).