Description

Hasan HAMIDULLA (1895-1988)

وطنسزلق

[Vatansızlık / Statelessnes]

Kemi: 1946

8°. [2 pp.], 10 pp., bound with the following three titles in a 20th century blue cloth binding with lettering on the cover and spine (old price written in the inner side of the back cover, slightly age-toned and stained, otherwise in a good condition).

 

The work Vatansızlık is the author’s daily chronicle in verse.

Worldcat list the title with no examples in the libraries.

References: OCLC 58058359. Harry HALÉN, A Bibliographical Survey of the Publishing Activities of the Turkic Minority in Finland, 1979, no. 5.

 

 

[and:]

Hasan HAMIDULLA (1895-1988)

يوراك يالقنلارى

[Yörek yalkinlari / Flames of the Heart]

Kemi: 1948.

8°. 16 pp.

 

A collection of Hamidulla’s patriotic poems.

Worldcat list the title with no examples in the libraries.

References: OCLC 58058633. Harry HALÉN, A Bibliographical Survey of the Publishing Activities of the Turkic Minority in Finland, 1979, no. 7.

[and:]

Hasan HAMIDULLA (1895-1988)

پيقاى

[Pikay]

Kemi: 1948.

8°. 15 pp., 3 full-page back and white illustrations.

 

A rhymed tale of a woman with ill repute (Halén, no.8).

Worldcat lists only one example of the book (Orient-Institut Istanbul, possibly wrongly dated in 1945).

References: OCLC 1030932773. Harry HALÉN, A Bibliographical Survey of the Publishing Activities of the Turkic Minority in Finland, 1979, no. 8.

 

 

[and:]

Hasan HAMIDULLA (1895-1988)

سونوكه تابا

[Sünüge Taba / Towards Extinction]

Helsinki: 1951.

8°. 20 pp.

Worldcat lists only one example of the book (Orient-Institut Istanbul).

References: OCLC 1030932743. Harry HALÉN, A Bibliographical Survey of the Publishing Activities of the Turkic Minority in Finland, 1979, no. 10.

 

 

Hasan Hamidulla (1895-1988) was a Finland-based Tatar publisher, writer and entrepreneur. He was born in Nizhny Novgorod and moved with this father to Finland in 1915. In 1926 and 1927 Hasan served a military service in Turkey, after which he returned to Finland, where he was running a business with batteries and radios. In 1950 he moved to Helsinki.

From the mid 1920s on, Hasan was publishing books and magazines in Tatar language and was distributing them for free to the Muslim immigrants. He was closely involved with the Islamic religious centers in Finland and outside its borders.

All the publications were printed or mimeographed by the author in his private press in limited editions and today rarely appear on the market and no or only sporadic examples survive in the institutions.

Our examples come from an outstandingly curated private collection of unusual Tatar and Turkic printing and are bound in attractive privately made cloth binding.