BookPresses

San Francisco, USA · est. 1974

Arion Press

The only US printer making books entirely by hand from comma to cover under one roof, operating its own M&H hot-metal type foundry, letterpress workshop, and bindery as successor to the Grabhorn Press.

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About the press

Arion Press is a San Francisco fine-press publisher founded in 1974 as the successor to the Grabhorn Press. It produces limited-edition books entirely by hand, operating the last unified hot-metal type foundry, letterpress workshop, and book bindery in America, and pairs prominent artists with major works of literature.

Notable titles

  • Fables of Aesop
  • Kindred
  • Pooh

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