Saul Marks (7 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Sewn creme wrappers printed in red, 12mo., (16) pages. Introduction by Jake Zeitlin. A 53 item catalogue of an exhibition at the Grolier Club. Presumably printed at the Plantin Press, without attribution. One minute spot on the front wrapper, else a near fine copy.

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine condition. First Edition. Beverly Hills, California: Maxwell Hunley 5.5" wide by 8.5" tall. no date (but 1940s). Paper browning. Light cover soil. No underlining. No margin notes. Rare Book catalogue with 363 items. No printer is attributed here but Saul and Lillian Marks of the Plantin Press are known to have frequently worked with Maxwell Hunley in the 1940s. This catalog's typography and title-page ornamentation are very characteristic of Plantin Press work. For example, similar items are illustrated at pages 96 and 160 of Saul Marks and the Plantin Press, The Life & Work of a Singular Man by Lillian Marks (Los Angeles: Plantin Press, 1980). First Edition. Softcover. Near Fine condition. 32pp.

16pp., 12mo. Stitched into cream wraps with title printed in red on cover. In good condition, with slight wear to overlapping edges of wraps. Inscription in pencil at head of first page: 'ABR from Bob, 1972 | - see colophon' ('ABR' is the London antiquarian bookseller Anthony Bertram Rota). The 'Acknowledgments' (rather than a colophon) on the last page begin: 'Saul and Lillian Marks wish to thank Mr. Robert Elwell for inviting the Plantin Press to show its work at the Grolier Club, [.]'. The Markses are not named as the printers of this elegant little production, with antique headpieces and initial in red ink and modern vignette of two printers working in black on first page.

Condition: Good. 4to. 145 pp. Very Good, Tan Decorative Cloth with some sun-staining especially along spine, shelf wear, rubbing. Provenance: John Ruyle, his bookplate inside cover. With an Introduction by Carl Van Doren. Illustrations printed in gravure by The Photogravure & Color Company of New York. One of 1500 copies, Publisher's Copy according to penciled note on FFEP.

Hardcover. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: VG-. Slender hardback, one of 140 copies printed by Saul and Lillian Marks at the Plantin Press, Los Angeles: September 1972. Translation by Peter van der Pas of the Flemish text describing the Office Rules at the Golden Compasses, Antwerp, c. 1563. Gold-colored decoration on gray paper-covered boards; 44 numbered pages. Mild DJ wear, including browning of spine and bit of uneven browning along edges. Still, a quite attractive copy. ;

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Tan paper-covered boards gilt, DW, small 8vo.,x, 44, (4) pages, a few illustrations. A talk for the Zamorano Club. A fine copy in the very mildly used near fine DW and archival mylar.

A printing of the talk Saul Marks made about the Christopher Plantin before the Zamorano Club, based on the work of Plantin scholars Max Rooses, Maurice Sabbe, Leon Voet, T.F. Dibdin, Theodore Low De Vinne, Colin Clair, Harry Carter, Ray Nash, and others. Also included are "The Office Rules at the Golden Compasses," translated by Peter van der Pas, which are the Master's "standing orders" for those employed at his printing office; such rules include not discussing religion (a heavy fine is imposed on violators), not using obscene language or telling untrue stories, not removing proofs, printed sheets, or anything else from the office, and not discussing the goings-on of the printer's office with outsiders, among many others. Octavo. [10], 44, [4] pp. Woodcut device of a compass in brown on the title-page, decorative initial letters in blue-green, second compass device in black on the colophon. Full-page portrait of Plantin. Tan printed boards. In the original dust jacket, printed in orange, with minor toning A fine copy in a very good+ dust jacket with the original prospectus laid in. One of 140 copies printed by Saul and Lillian Marks. Presentation copy, inscribed by Marks on the colophon.