Contacting Arion Press

Directions may be found here.
Please contact us by the following means:

The Arion Press
1802 Hays Street, The Presidio
San Francisco, California 94129
Telephone: 415-668-2542
Fax: 415-668-2550
E-mail: arionpress@arionpress.com
Web: www.arionpress.com
Directions

We welcome your inquiries. Please contact us directly in order to:

• Order a particular volume or several titles. Please inquire for correct total to include shipping charge and sales tax where applicable. We accept payment by cash, wire transfer, check, and MasterCard or Visa credit card only.
• Receive further information or talk to us about the advantages of the Arion Press subscription program in which members receive a 30% discount on new titles, as well as on purchases of books from the backlist.
• Request the full-scale prospectus for one or more titles.
• Place your name on our mailing list.

Visit / Tour Arion Press

If you plan to come to San Francisco you are welcome to visit Arion Press. Public tours of the production facilities, including the historic type foundry, are held every Thursday at 3:00 p.m. for $7.00 per person, and last approximately an hour and a half. We accept cash and checks made out to “The Grabhorn Institute”. Please call the Grabhorn Institute at (415) 668-2548 to reserve a space. If you wish to view particular Arion Press books before making a purchase, please call for a private appointment.

Visit the Gallery

The Arion Press gallery is open free to the public Monday through Friday from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Current exhibitions.

Building 1802 in the Presidio is marked on the map below in yellow. Click on the map for a larger view or click here for a map of the entire Presidio (note: this map does not reflect current construction).

Directions: We are located just inside the Presidio entrance on Fifteenth Avenue off of Lake Street, on the Richmond/Sea Cliff side of the Presidio. Once inside the entrance, proceed to the stop sign in front of the Public Health hospital currently under construction. To the right of the hospital is a tall smokestack, which is Arion Press, building 1802. Turn right at the stop sign onto Wedemeyer and follow the road up and around to the left, where it becomes Hays Street. Parking is available in front of our building and around the small public park on Brown Street and Belles Street (see map).
From downtown: Go west on California Street to Fifteenth Avenue, turn right and continue across Lake Street, enter the Presidio, and proceed as above.
From the north: From Highway 101: After the Golden Gate Bridge take the Nineteenth Avenue/Park Presidio Boulevard exit; at the first intersection after the tunnel turn right onto Lake Street, right onto Fifteenth Avenue, enter the Presidio, and proceed as above.
From the south: Take Nineteenth Avenue north to California Street. Turn right onto California, left onto Funston Avenue, left onto Lake Street, cross over Nineteenth Avenue, turn right onto Fifteenth Avenue, and proceed as above.
Public transportation:
From the east or west: Take any of the following bus lines and get off at the Park-Presidio stop: 1-California, 2-Clement, or 38-Geary. Walk to Fourteenth Avenue, walk north through the walking entrance into the Presidio at Fourteenth Avenue and Lake Street, and proceed as above.
From the north or south: Take the 28-Nineteenth Avenue bus line and get off at the California Street stop. Walk to Fourteenth Avenue, walk north through the walking entrance into the Presidio at Fourteenth Avenue and Lake Street, and proceed as above.

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