The Red Rugs of Tarsus; a Woman's Record of the Armenian Massacre of 1909 Helen Davenport Gibbons, 1919
Second European edition. Very rare edition w/ photographs. Most U.S. editions got printed with no plates/photos. Printed in Paris by Hagop Turabian in 1919. A fair copy of this highly collectible book about the Armenian Massacres. An important cultural artifact. Softcover edition. 143 pages with two b/w photo plates. Printed for distribution in Europe. The book has a new spine, some edgewear, light wear to pages, some brittling and foxing, but no serious flaws.
HELEN DAVENPORT GIBBONS [1882 – 1960] - An American journalist, author. In 1909 the Gibbons family witnessed the Armenian massacres in Tarsus, Turkey. Later (in 1917) Helen Gibbons wrote a book called “The Red Rugs of Tarsus” - a compilation of her letters describing those terrible events.
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