[DIASPORA PRINTING IN ALEPPO / ARMENIAN POETRY] Թուղթ առ Երեւան / Tught ar Yerevan (Matenashar "Nayiri” 2) [i.e., Letter to Yerevan]

DZARUKIAN, ANDRANIK (1913-1989). [Tparan Nayiri], Halêp [Aleppo], 1946. Modern black cloth with original front cover mounted on the front board. Large demy 8vo. (22,5 x 15,5 cm). In Armenian. [129]-185 pp. Several light wormholes, slight marginal foxing on pages, chipping extremities. Overall, a good copy. Exceedingly rare early edition of this poetry book by a deported Armenian to Aleppo from Sivas (the Ottoman Empire).  The poems in this book republished more than a dozen times in various Armenian communities -including in Syria, the United States, Lebanon, and Cyprus -up until the early 1990s, and as a result became a source of inspiration for tens of thousands.  The book was printed in the Nayiri Printing House in Aleppo. Through the same printing house, Dzarukian also published the Nayiri Newspaper, a monthly magazine, between the years of 1945-1952 in Aleppo where he was deported to during the 1915 Armenian Deportation by Ottoman authorities. Then Dzarukian moved to Beirut, wher