The Romance of the Oriental Rug de Babayan, Levon - 1925

Toronto: Babayans Ltd, 1925 First edition in hardcover with a poor jacket. 80 pp. Colour plates. There is an inscription on the front endpaper by someone from Babayans in Ottawa and also a small owner's sticker. The boards have rubbing to spine ends and corners. The fron flap of the jacket is detached, lots of big chips and tears, age toning. Good/Poor

Toronto: Privately Published, 1925. 1st . Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. First edition. 80 pp., 4 color plates with tissue guards, 15 b&w photos, hardcover, dustjacket. A beautiful early book on antique carpets. Text is Nearly Fine, with a neat contemporary armorial bookplate on the front endpaper, light wear to tips. DJ is is very bright, just light wear at tips and a couple of small chips. A superb copy of this fragile book.

Toronto: Babayan's Ltd, 1925. First Edition . Cloth. Vg/No Jacket. 8vo. 80 pgs. Colour and b/w plates. Lacking the dust jacket & the front free endpaper.

Toronto: Babayan's Limited, 1925. Book. Fair. Cloth. First. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 80pp., ill. (some colour plages). Light wear, but something (staple?) has punctured the front cover and a number of interior pages, otherwise would have been a VG copy..

Babayan's Limited; Toronto, 1925 First edition with dustcover. Maroon cloth-covered boards, gilt front board lettering and decoration (moderately faded), 10 3/8 x 7 inches, 80 pp, four color plates with tissue guards, 15 b/w illustrations. Book very good plus (modest fading, front board gilt; pages clean and binding tight). Dustcover about good. A nice copy. (3214003). 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good.

Toronto: Babayan's Ltd.. 1925. Stated: "Edition One". VG+/Fair, former owner's signature on endpaper just above presentation, corners slightly bumped. DJ small chips missing around edges and corners, some tearing to corners (but still intact) , darkening to spine. Overall a solid copy (despite mylar protected DJ) with clean text and unmarked illustrations. ; 8vo, maroon dec. Cloth over limp boards, DJ, 80pp. Illustrated with numerous examples of oriental rugs (some in color) . This is a PRESENTATION COPY which reads "A gift from BabayanÕs/ Toronto 1942" on fep. .

Toronto, Canada: Babayan's Limited, 1925. 4 colour plates, 15 b/w illustrations. 80 pp. Slightly yellowed endpapers. Burgundy cloth with yellow titles and decoration. Corners lightly bumped. Beige DJ with burgundy titles and illustration. Two inch chip from spine's tail, small chips and light wear along the edges, darkened spine, small stains. VG+/VG. First Edition.

Toronto: Babayan's Limited [1925], 1st edition. (4to) Very good plus in very good dust jacket. 80pp. Illustrations, black and white and color photographs. Minor edgewear to dust jacket. (Art, Oriental Rugs).