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Tours

Public demonstration tours of the historic printing and bookmaking facilities of Arion Press and the historic typefoundry of M & H Type are held Thursday afternoons at 3:00 p.m. and last approximately an hour and a half.

These tours provide an extraordinary opportunity to witness this unique facility, one of the last of its kind in the world, in full operation. Visitors can see how type is cast from hot metal in our foundry, watch pages being made up in the composition room and printed by letterpress, and learn how a book is bound by hand, from sewing to backing to casing in. Some of our historic machinery dates back to the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition. Our collection of typefaces is housed in 3,888 typecases, and amongst its many offerings can be found rare samples acquired by the Grabhorn brothers. Our trained craftspeople and apprentices will be your tour guides, combining instruction with demonstration. After the tour is over, feel free to browse our upstairs gallery, which features a rotating exhibition of our latest projects.

There is a charge of $7.00 per person, payable by cash or check made out to “The Grabhorn Institute”. Reservations are required. The tours are sponsored by the nonprofit Grabhorn Institute. For reservations call (415) 668-2548 or e-mail grabhorn@arionpress.com.

We welcome group tours of up to 75 persons. If your group is unable to attend our weekly Thursday tour and would like to schedule a special tour, please contact us for scheduling and pricing information.

Exhibitions in the Arion Press Gallery

Please note that all of the books and prints on exhibit are available for sale. For pricing and purchasing information, ask one of the staff members, or contact us at (415) 668-2542 or arionpress@arionpress.com.

• Current Exhibition: Kiki Smith, 16 images of her own hair for I Love My Love by poet Helen Adam; William T. Wiley, color print for Don Quixote; Julie Mehretu, print for our forthcoming edition of poetry by Sappho; Raymond Pettibon, prints for our forthcoming edition of South of Heaven by Jim Thompson; Laurie Simmons, color and black-and-white photographs accompanying Mrs. Bridge by Evan S. Connell; Frank Lobdell, color etchings in conjunction with The Structure of Rime, the series of prose poems by Robert Duncan; Jim Dine, painting entitled "Hoyem's Heart" (the sale of which will benefit the nonprofit Grabhorn Institute); William Blake, facsimile prints of watercolor illustrations for Paradise Lost, from our portfolio of thirteen facsimile prints by Blake from the collection of the Huntington Library; Stan Washburn, artwork for Tono-Bungay by H. G. Wells; Kiki Smith, artwork for Sampler, poems by Emily Dickinson; Jess's The Boobus and the Bunnyduck, the Arion Press facsimile edition of his unique artist book from the story by poet Michael McClure; William T. Wiley, artwork and unique hand-colored prints for Godot, an imaginary staging by Wiley of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot; Mark Ulriksen, paintings for A Day in the Bleachers by Arnold Hano; Alex Katz, etchings for Gloria by Bill Berkson.

Please check back for other exhibitions as they are scheduled.

Events & Grabhorn Institute Lectures

February 10, 2010: You are invited to celebrate with Lewis Mitchell, Master Typecaster, on his sixty years of employment at Mackenzie & Harris, aka M & H Type, on Wednesday, February 10, 2010 from 5:30 to 7:30. Cocktails and hors d’oeuvres in the type foundry and pressroom; 1802 Hays Street, The Presidio, San Francisco. RSVP to 415-668-2546 or mandhtype@arionpress.com. Co-sponsored by the Grabhorn Institute and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Tuesday, April 27, 6:00 p.m. Grabhorn Institute Spring Benefit Dinner with guest of honor Julie Mehretu. Acclaimed American artist Julie Mehretu will be honored at the annual dinner benefiting the non-profit Grabhorn Institute on April 27 at Arion Press. The Benefit is a sit-down dinner for 140 held here in the Arion Press gallery, preceded by cocktails in the pressroom and tours of the production areas. It is known for the excellence of the food and wine, the wit of the artist's remarks, and the brevity of other speeches. For reservations or information call the Grabhorn Institute at (415) 668-2548 or e-mail grabhorn@arionpress.com, or read more about the artist and the benefit and reserve online.

Friday, April 30: Jungian analyst John Beebe and others from the San Francisco Jung Institute on “Publishing Jung’s Red Book after Nearly a Century”. Co-sponsored by the Grabhorn Institute and the National Endowment for the Arts. Seating is limited; more information will be posted.

Forthcoming Events (dates to be announced): Special Collections Librarian Mark Dimunation of the Library of Congress on “Recreating Jefferson’s Library”; Poetry critic and Stanford University professor emeritus Marjorie Perloff, biographer of poet Frank O’Hara, on O’Hara’s major poem Biotherm, with an exhibition of artist Jim Dine's illustrations for Biotherm, and the participation of Dine and art critic Bill Berkson; Andrew Hoyem on the work of Bruce Rogers, considered the greatest American book designer.

Also see photos of recent events.

Upcoming Fairs

February 5 to 7, 2010, San Francisco: The International Print Dealers Association San Francisco Print Fair at Ft. Mason Center begins Friday February 5, 6 to 9 with the opening gala, at $20 per ticket. The Fair continues free of charge on Saturday, February 7, 10 to 6, and Sunday, February 8. 11-5. Arion Press will preview upcoming work by Raymond Pettibon and Julie Mehretu. It will highlight our new edition of Miguel de Cervantes’s comic masterwork, Don Quixote, with more than 80 full-page illustrations by artist William T. Wiley. The two-volume, 1,000-page edition is one of the most ambitious publications of the Press and is accompanied by a separate color Wiley print. Also on view is Kiki Smith’s new project with Arion, a 20-foot accordion-fold artist book, I Love My Love, in an edition of 75. Sixteen images derived from the artist’s own hair are intertwined with fourteen stanzas of the Helen Adam ballad “I Love My Love”. Kiki Smith’s book with the Press is an edition of the poetry of Emily Dickinson, Sampler, for which she created more than 200 images. Stop in at the Fair to see Arion books, prints, and photographs with artists including Laurie Simmons, Stephen Shore, Frank Lobdell, Alex Katz, Jim Dine, R. B, Kitaj, Diana Michener, and others. Call 415-472-7021 or read more.

National & International Exhibitions

Saturday, November 21, 2009 through Sunday, May 23, 2010, Minneapolis: The celebrated Arion edition of The Apocalypse with woodblock prints by Jim Dine will be included in the upcoming “Extraordinary Exhibitions: Artists' Books of the 20th Century” exhibition at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. A few copies of this rare title are available for sale.

Wednesday, March 17, 2010 through Sunday, July 18, 2010, Berkeley: Arion Press artist books and prints are featured in the William T. Wiley retrospective at the Berkeley Art Museum opening March 17 include the new Don Quixote, Godot, and The Voices of Marrakesh. What’s It All Mean: William T. Wiley in Retrospect opened at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D. C. where it received a stunning tribute from New York Times critic Ken Johnson. Wiley has made prints for three books with Arion Press, all of which are available: The Voices of Marrakesh, by Nobel Prize-winning author Elian Canetti, with a separate large color etching, Godot, an imaginary staging of the play by Samuel Beckett, with separate hand-colored prints, and Don Quixote in the new translation by Edith Grossman. Other unique works and prints by Wiley are also offered by Arion Press. The Wiley retrospective runs at the University of California’s Berkeley Art Museum from March 17 through July 18, 2010.

Decenber 19, 2009 through January 16, 2011, San Francisco: The Arion Press edition of Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities, with artwork by Wayne Thiebaud, is on view now in the 75th anniversary exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. The Anniversary Show traces the art and individuals that have contributed to the museum's impact on modern and contemporary art. The Arion edition of Invisible Cities is on the 2nd floor in a gallery called Visionary Urbanism.

Recent Events

Monday, October 26, 5:00 p.m. Eric Karpeles, artist and author of the acclaimed new study Paintings in Proust, gave an illustrated talk entitled "My Book is a Painting: How Paintings Informed the Making of Proust's Great Novel". Refreshments at 5:00 p.m., talk at 6:00. Sponsored by the Grabhorn Institute with support from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Tuesday, September 8, 5:00 p.m. Publication party and readings for The Nachman Stories by Leonard Michaels. The celebration featured eadings and commentary by Robert Hass, Wendy Lesser, Ethan Michaels, Andrew Hoyem, and Fred Crews. This book brings together for the first time in one volume the stories featuring Raphael Nachman as their hero. Cocktail reception at 5:00 p.m., readings at 6:00 p.m.

Monday, September 21, 5:00 p.m. Inner Light Books publisher Charles Martin talk, “Quaker Publishing: Reviving Lost Classics for the 21st Century”. Inner Light Books publishes books by and about Quakers and books that examine Quaker values. Reception at 5:00 p.m., talk at 6:00 p.m. Sponsored by the Grabhorn Institute with support from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Friday, August 14, 5:00 p.m. Closing reception and exhibition for the 2009 Grabhorn Fellows, a group of ten outstanding book arts students from around the country, selected by the College Book Art Association. Held concurrently with an exhibition and discussion of the Fellows' artist books in the gallery.

This was the inaugural year of the Grabhorn Fellows program, a week-long residency workshop sponsored by the nonprofit Grabhorn Institute, where students learned about the running of a fine press, from concept and design, through typography, printing, and binding, to sales and marketing. This annual program is co-sponsored by the College Book Art Association. For more information, please contact us.

Wednesday, April 22, 6:00 p.m. Grabhorn Institute Spring Benefit Dinner with guest of honor Stephen Shore. This year's guest of honor was renowned New York photographer Stephen Shore, who illustrated the Arion edition of Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence in 2004. Please visit the benefit page for more information on the special offering of five Shore photographs, sales of which proceed the Grabhorn Institute.

Wednesday, March 11, 5:00 p.m. Talk by noted historian Fred Kaplan, "Abraham Lincoln as a Writer". Professor Kaplan is the biographer of Mark Twain and Henry James and the author of the recent Lincoln: The Biography of a Writer, which is cited as among the latest reading of President Obama. Reception at 5 p.m., talk at 6 p.m. Celebrating the 200th anniversary of Lincoln's birth. Sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Book Club of California, and the Brick Row Book Shop. Reservations required: (415) 668-2542 or grabhorn@arionpress.com

Wednesday, February 25, 5:00 p.m. Book artist and cultural critic Johanna Drucker on "Writing as a Printer, Printing as a Writer". Drucker is the Bernard and Martin Breslauer Professor of Bibliography at UCLA. Her scholarly work includes Sweet Dreams: Contemporary Art and Complicity (2005) and Graphic Design History: A Critical Guide, with Emily McVarish (2008). On display will be a number of Drucker's artist's books with her own writing and images. Reception at 5 p.m. The talk begins at 6 p.m. and will be followed by a musical interlude by vocalist Syd Straw, accompanying herself on guitar. Sponsored by the Grabhorn Institute with support from the Book Club of California and the National Endowment for the Arts.

-2008 EVENTS-

Tuesday, December 9, 5:00 p.m. A celebration of the 400th anniversary of John Milton's birthday (9 December 1608 - 8 November 1674). At 6:00, Andrew Hoyem delivered a lecture on “Milton's Paradise Lost Regained”. An exhibition of early and special editions of Paradise Lost, Milton's great work, included the Baskerville edition as well as the Arion Press typographic limited edition, with commentaries by Blake scholar Robert N. Essick and Milton scholar John Shawcross, and accompanied by our William Blake portfolio. Sponsored by the Grabhorn Institute with support from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Wednesday, November 19, 5:00 p.m. Party celebrating the release of our most recent publication, The Structure of Rime, the first collected edition of the series of prose poems by Robert Duncan, with an introduction by Michael Palmer, and augmented by etchings by Frank Lobdell. An exhibition of color etchings by Frank Lobdell, offered for sale with the book and an accompanying print, is mounted in the gallery. Readings from the poetry were presented by Michael Palmer, Christopher Wagstaff, and Andrew Hoyem at 6:00.

Sunday, October 12, 2008, 6:00 p.m. Novelist Diane Johnson signed and read from her latest book, Lulu in Marrakech. Johnson is the author of the introduction to the Arion Press edition of Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence.

Tuesday, September 23, 2008, 5:00 p.m. Publication party celebrating the release of the Arion Press edition of Tono-Bungay by H. G. Wells, with artwork by Stan Washburn.

Tuesday, July 15, 2008, 6:00 p.m. Double-feature screening of legendary films of plays by Samuel Beckett. See event photos.
At 6 p.m.: Krapp's Last Tape with Irish actor Jack MacGowran. Directed for TV by Alan Schneider in 1971 but never shown.
At 7 p.m.: Buffet dinner.
At 8 p.m.: Waiting for Godot with Zero Mostel and Burgess Meredith. Directed by Alan Schneider in 1961 for PBS WNET.
Sponsored by the Grabhorn Institute with support from the Book Club of California and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Wednesday, June 25, 2008, 6:00 p.m. William Stout on “Collecting Frank Lloyd Wright”, an informal talk by architect and publisher William Stout, with a viewing of rare items from his personal collection of books and graphics by and about Wright. Sponsored by the Grabhorn Institute with support from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Book Club of California. See event photos.

Tuesday, April 22, 2008, 6:00 p.m. The annual Grabhorn Institute Spring Benefit Dinner. With honored guest William T. Wiley, who has upcoming retrospectives at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C., and at the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts at the Legion of Honor in San Francisco. Please visit the Grabhorn Institute webpage for more information about the special offering of Wiley prints and a drawing.

Tuesday, February 26, 2008, 6:00 p.m. Helvetica screening. The documentary by Gary Hustwit, released in 2007 to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the type's introduction. Sponsored by the Grabhorn Institute with support from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Book Club of California, and the San Francisco Center for the Book.

Friday, January 4, 2008, 5:00 p.m. The premier showings of The Household of Robert Duncan and Jess: An Intimate Portrait of a Legendary Home, a documentary by Christopher Wagstaff and David Fratto, and an excerpt from Peekaboo Flicks, home movies made by Jess, 1981-91. Sponsored by the Grabhorn Institute with support from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Book Club of California.

Monday, September 10, 2007, 6:00 p.m. Chicago printing scholar Kim Coventry with an illustrated talk entitled “Printing for the Modern Age: Commerce, Craft, and Culture from the Presses of RR Donnelley”. The firm of RR Donnelley was founded 140 years ago and is now the nation's largest printing operation. This event is part of the Grabhorn Institute Lecture Series, preceded by a reception at 5 p.m. Sponsored by the Grabhorn Institute with support from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Book Club of California.

Wednesday, August 15, 2007, 5:00 to 7:30 p.m. Opening reception for the exhibit “Pj’s on the Qt: selected Tangrams / more pieces to the puzzle”. Tangram is the limited edition press of Jerry Reddan, longtime printer for Arion Press, and has published many wonderful small books of poetry and prose by prominent writers including Jim Dodge and Barry Lopez. In the words of Southwest BookViews, “Tangram is a limited-edition, letterpress house in Berkeley that pays attention to detail and the quality of a book as physical object, amplifying its role as the repository of well-chosen words.” The exhibition is sponsored by the Grabhorn Institute and supported by The Book Club of California and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Tuesday, May 22, 2007, 6:00 p.m. Twelve Men in a Print Shop by Adam Hochschild. To mark the 200th anniversary of Britain's abolition of the slave trade, an illustrated talk, Twelve Men in a Print Shop, by Adam Hochschild, author of Bury the Chains, winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Award in History and the PEN-USA Prize. The abolition campaign was launched in James Phillips' print shop in George Yard, London on May 22, 1787. Sponsored by the Grabhorn Institute with support from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Book Club of California, and the English-Speaking Union.

Tuesday, April 24, 2007, 6:00 p.m. The Grabhorn Institute Spring Benefit Dinner. Guest of honor: artist John Baldessari. A celebration benefiting the Institute's programs in the history of printing, the art of the book, preservation, and education, including apprenticeships in typecasting, printing, and bookbinding. For information and to reserve: 415-668-2548 or email grabhorn@arionpress.com.

Sunday, April 15, 2007, 1:00 to 2:30 p.m. Andrew Hoyem has been selected to receive the Fred Cody Lifetime Achievement Award during the 26th annual Northern California Book Awards on Sunday, April 15, 2007. Read more.

Monday, March 19, 2007, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Internationally acclaimed book binder Jill Tarlau talking about her work in connection with the exhibition “Jill Oriane Tarlau: Embroidered Bindings”, an exhibition of 22 bindings using rare and luxurious materials. Sponsored by the Grabhorn Institute and the Book Club of California with support from the National Endowment of the Arts.

Saturday, March 10, 2007, 10:00 a.m to 12:00 p.m. Arnold Hano, author of Arion's recent book A Day in the Bleachers, on the radio show West Coast Live on March 10th. Now in his 85th year, Hano discusses the book as well as his take on baseball today. West Coast Live takes place in front of a live audience at the Freight and Salvage, 1111 Addison, Berkeley, CA, and is broadcast on dozens of stations across the country as well as Sirius satellite radio.

Tuesday, February 27, 2007, 7:00 p.m. Andrew Hoyem presenting at the opening of the exhibition “Andrew Hoyem & Arion Press: 36 Books 1976-2006,” at the Gutenberg Museum, Mainz (Frankfurt). For more information and directions, see the Gutenberg Museum website.

Friday, January 12, 2007, Morgan City, Louisiana: Charles Martin of Arion Press presenting a slide lecture on Andrew Jackson Grayson's Birds of the Pacific Slope at the Everett Street Gallery, 201 Front Street, Morgan City, LA at 6:30 p.m. on Friday, January 12, 2007. Sponsored by the Humanities Council of Louisiana and the Book Club of California.

Saturday, November 18, 2006, Lexington, Kentucky: Andrew Hoyem at the University of Kentucky on Saturday, November 18 in an afternoon seminar during the King Library Press Fiftieth Anniversary celebration. The presentation is titled “Bible, Baseball, and Beckett: Recent Arion Press Books”. More information.

Wednesday, November 8, 2006, 6:00 p.m. The History of London Bookselling. Historian C. Paul Christianson gave a slide lecture on “The Beginnings of the English Book Trade: The Booksellers of Early Tudor London”. Sponsored by the Grabhorn Institute and the Book Club of California.

Tuesday, May 2, 2006, 6:00 p.m. A conversation with Joseph Goldyne and his collaborators in artists' books, moderated by Charles Hobson. With an accompanying exhibition of Goldyne's artist books through June 4, 2006.

Tuesday, April 25, 2006, 6:30 p.m. The annual Grabhorn Institute Benefit Dinner, this year celebrating the fifth anniversary of the Institute. With honored guests Ira Michael Heyman, past Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, and Mel Kendrick, New York Sculptor and Print Maker, who contributed woodblock prints for the Arion Press edition of Kora in Hell, prose poems by William Carlos Williams. For more information, please visit the Grabhorn Institute page.

Tuesday, March 21, 2006, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Signing and reception of recent art and design books: Jacquelynn Baas, Smile of the Buddha: Eastern Philosophy and Western Art from Monet to Today (University of California Press); C. Paul Christianson, The Riverside Gardens of Thomas More's London (Yale University Press); Leslie Freudenheim, Building with Nature: Inspiration for the Arts & Crafts Home (Gibbs Smith Publishers); Diana Ketcham, The de Young in the 21st Century: A Museum by Herzog & de Meuron (Thames & Hudson); Marc Treib, The Donnell and Eckbo Gardens: Modern California Masterworks (Willliam Stout Publishers). Authors will be present, with remarks at 6:30 p.m. Co-hosted by Arion Press and William Stout Architectural Books.

Recent Exhibitions

Friday, October 2, 2009 through Sunday, January 24, 2010, Washington, D.C.: "What's It All Mean: William T. Wiley in Retrospect" at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C. The Arion Press edition of The Voices of Marrakesh with large etching by Wiley will be on display. For more information, please visit the SAAM website.

Tuesday, October 13, 2009 through Sunday, January 24, 2010, Paris: The Michael Kenna photography retrospective at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France will include two of his projects with Arion Press, The Silverado Squatters by Robert Louis Stevenson, and The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. For more information and to view the BnF's virtual exhibition, click here.

July 11, 2009 through November 8, San Francisco: The 2009 retrospective of the prints of Los Angeles artist John Baldessari at San Francisco's Legion of Honor museum featured the Arion Press 1988 edition of The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne. The five large lithographs Baldessari created for the project were in the main exhibition. The Logan Gallery was be devoted to showing the Arion accordion-fold with 39 photo-collages by Baldessari, along with copies of the three volume set. A few copies of the book and suite set are still available for purchase.

August 14, 2009: Artist books created by the 2009 Grabhorn Fellows, ten outstanding book arts students from around the country, who attended the inaugural week-long workshop residency at the Arion Press and M & H Type, co-sponsored by the Grabhorn Institute and the College Book Art Association. Held concurrently with a closing reception.

November 7, 2007, through January 4, 2008: Jess: An Exhibition of Books, Magazines, and Broadsides. More than 60 items by the San Francisco artist known as Jess (1923-2004) are on display, including illustrations for books and magazines, as well as original works, drawings, and paste-ups on loan from the Jess Collins Trust, and the Arion Press facsimile of his children's book with Michael McClure, The Boobus and the Bunnyduck. For information on the exhibition or the Arion Press facsimile edition, inquire by email to arionpress@arionpress.com or call 415-668-2542.

August 16 through September 7, 2007: “Pj’s on the Qt: selected Tangrams / more pieces to the puzzle”. Tangram is the limited edition press of Jerry Reddan, longtime printer for Arion Press, and has published many wonderful small books of poetry and prose by prominent writers including Jim Dodge and Barry Lopez. In the words of Southwest BookViews, “Tangram is a limited-edition, letterpress house in Berkeley that pays attention to detail and the quality of a book as physical object, amplifying its role as the repository of well-chosen words.” Opening reception for the exhibit on August 15, 2007, from 5:00 to 7:30 p.m. The exhibition is sponsored by the Grabhorn Institute and supported by The Book Club of California and the National Endowment for the Arts.

April 16 through June 8, 2007, Pomona, California: “The Word and the Image: The Artist/Author Collaboration of Andrew Hoyem and Dick Barnes”. Special Collection Reading Room, Honnold/Mudd Library, 800 Dartmouth, Pomona College. This exhibition celebrates the artful collaboration of two Pomona College alumni, poet and scholar Dick Barnes and artist/printer Andrew Hoyem. From the 1960s to the late 1980s, they teamed to produce several important, finely printed books at the Arion Press. Materials on view are drawn from the Richard G. Barnes Papers and the Arion Press Collection in the Pomona College Archives. More information about hours and location.

March 26 through May 10, 2007, Kalamazoo, Michigan: The A. M. Todd Rare Book Room at Kalamazoo College is offering an exhibit entitled “Jim Dine: Collaborations with the Arion Press”. This exhibit showcases the works of American Pop Art leader Jim Dine. The works range from painting, sculpture, and prints to poetry and performance art. The exhibition is from the collection of Paul G. Smithson, who is a long-time Arion Press subscriber. Hours are Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday from 1 PM to 3 PM until May 10. More information. Three of Jim Dine's livres d'artistes for Arion Press are currently available: Biotherm, The Case of the Wolf-Man, and Ape & Cat.

March 19 through April 18, 2007: "Jill Oriane Tarlau: Embroidered Bindings", in the Arion Press Gallery. An exhibition of 22 bindings using rare and luxurious materials by internationally renowned bookbinder Jill Tarlau. Sponsored by the Grabhorn Institute and the Book Club of California with support from the National Endowment of the Arts. Read "Bound for beauty -- great literature and great art meet in one artist's books", by Heidi Benson, San Francisco Chronicle, March 29, 2007. "Her signature is her exquisitely detailed embroidery, which she incorporates into the design of each uniquely sized, leather-bound book cover. She considers embroidered bookbindings to be her special contribution to the long history of the art of book making", the article notes.

February 28 through April 15, 2007, Mainz, Germany: The Gutenberg Museum in Mainz, Germany, just outside of Frankfurt; an exhibition of Arion Press editions beginning February 28 and running through April 15. Opening Hours of the Museum: Tuesday to Saturday: 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m., Sunday: 11:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m; closed on Mondays and on public holidays. For more information and directions, see the Gutenberg Museum website.

Recent Fairs

November 5 through November 8, 2009, New York: International Fine Print Dealers Association Print Fair at the Seventh Regiment Armory, 643 Park Avenue at 67th Street, New York. Arion Press exhibited artist books and prints, including our most recent publication, Mrs. Bridge by Evan S. Connell, with photographs by Laurie Simmons, and two new projects: Book I of the two-volume landmark edition of Don Quixote in the new translation by Edith Grossman, with illustrations by William T. Wiley, and I Love My Love, the ballad by Helen Adam, with sixteen prints by Kiki Smith. Artist Kiki Smith made an appearance at the Arion Press booth (D3) on Thursday, November 5 at 5:30 p.m. for drinks and conversation.
Hours: Wed. 11/04, 5:00 - 9:00 p.m., Opening Night Preview; Thurs. 11/05 - Sat. 11/08, 12:00 - 8:00 p.m.; Sun. 11/09, 12:00 - 6:00 p.m.
For more information, visit the IFPDA Print Fair website.

September 19, 2009, San Francisco: Roadworks: Steamroller Prints, the San Francisco Center for the Book's sixth annual community street fair. M & H Type will be on hand at this creative block party, where a steamroller will be used to make large linoleum prints by local artists. The fair takes place on Rhode Island Street between 16th and 17th Streets.

May 9, 2009, San Francisco: Annual Book Arts & Printer's Fair, Fort Mason, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Admission: Free. Information: www.pcba.info. Letterpress printers, book artists, calligraphers, paper marblers, publishers, and book enthusiasts gathered to share their love of the word in all its forms. M & H Type was on hand with information about our foundry and ordering type.

February 9 through 11, 2009, Berkeley: Arion Press was represented at the second biennial Codex International Book Fair Monday, February 9 through Wednesday, February 11. For more information, visit www.codexfoundation.org.

January 22 through 25, 2009, Los Angeles: International Fine Print Dealers Association Los Angeles Fine Print Fair at the Los Angeles Convention Center, West Hall A, 1201 South Figueroa Street. Arion Press exhibited artist books and prints in this fair, which was recently added to the annual Los Angeles Art Show. For more information, visit the LA Art Show website.

October 29 through November 2, 2008, New York: International Fine Print Dealers Association Fair at the Seventh Regiment Armory, 643 Park Avenue at 67th Street. Arion Press exhibited artist books and prints in this annual fair. For more information: www.printdealers.com.

Saturday, September 20, 2008, 11:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m., San Francisco: Roadworks: Steamroller Prints. M & H Type at the fifth annual street fair hosted by the San Francisco Center for the Book. The highlight of the event was the making of prints from large-scale linoleum blocks, carved especially for the occasion, with a steamroller. The fair took place on De Haro between 16th and 17th Streets. For more information, see the SFCB calendar.

October 4 and 5, 2008, New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Fest XV, the fifteenth annual fair celebrating book arts, sponsored by Oak Knoll Books, a leading antiquarian dealer and publisher. This year, Oak Knoll was "Celebrating a Hot-Metal Man", honoring Henry Morris of Bird and Bull Press and his 50th anniversary in printing. For more information, visit the Oak Knoll Fest website.

January 23 through 27, 2008, Los Angeles: Los Angeles Fine Print Fair, newly added to the Los Angeles Art Show, sponsored by the International Fine Print Dealers Association. Barker Hangar in Santa Monica. www.laartshow.com.

December 5 through 9, 2007, Miami, Florida: INK Miami, a fair for contemporary works on paper during Art Basel Miami Beach, featuring twenty notable publishers and dealers, including Arion Press, all members of the International Fine Print Dealers Association. Suites of Dorchester, 1850 Collins Avenue, Miami Beach, Florida. www.inkartfair.com

October 31 through November 4, 2007, New York: International Fine Print Dealers Association Fair at the Seventh Regiment Armory, 643 Park Avenue at 67th Street. Arion Press exhibited recent artist books and prints in this annual fair for printed art offered by premier dealers in Old Master to Modern to Contemporary works. Artist Kiki Smith made an appearance at 4:30 p.m. on November 3, in conjunction with her artwork for Sampler, the collection of poetry by Emily Dickinson. www.printdealers.com

October 6 and 7, 2007, New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Fest, the fourteenth annual fair celebrating book arts, sponsored by Oak Knoll Books, a leading antiquarian dealer and publisher. Kenneth Howard representing Arion Press and M & H Type at the fair, held in the charming town of New Castle, Delaware. The theme is the current renaissance of letterpress printing and its place in college and university programs. The Arion exhibition includes The Waste Land, Journey Round My Room, Godot and other recent publications. More about Oak Knoll Fest: www.oakknoll.com

September 8, 2007, San Francisco: M & H Type at the Street Fair sponsored by the San Francisco Center for the Book on Saturday, September 8, 2007, from 11 AM to 5 PM. In conjunction with the Roadworks: Steamroller Prints event, with artists making prints from large-scale linoleum blocks with a steamroller. The fair takes place on De Haro Street between 16th and 17th, San Francisco. More information.

May 5, 2007, San Francisco: Annual Book Arts & Printer's Fair, Fort Mason, Building A, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Admission: Free. Information: www.pcba.info. Letterpress printers, book artists, calligraphers, paper marblers, publishers, and book enthusiasts gather to share their love of the word in all its forms. Our own M & H Type will be on hand with information about our foundry and ordering type.

February 14 and 15, 2007, Berkeley: Arion Press and the Grabhorn Institute will be represented at the Codex International Book Fair, titled “The Fate of the Art: the Handmade Book in the 21st Century”, on February 14 and 15, noon to 6 p.m. The fair takes place in the Pauley Ballroom, Telegraph and Bancroft, at the University of California at Berkeley. Book fair tickets are $5-$15. More Information: www.codexfoundation.org.

December 7 through 10, 2006 Miami, Florida: INK Miami, a fair for contemporary works on paper during Art Basel Miami Beach, featuring fifteen notable publishers and dealers, including Arion Press, all members of the International Fine Print Dealers Association. Suites of Dorchester, 1850 Collins Avenue, Miami Beach, Florida. Hours: Thursday, December 7 through Saturday, December 9, 10:00 – 8:00; Sunday, December 10, 10:00 – 3:00. Information: (212) 674-6095, www.printdealers.com.

November 1 through 5, 2006, New York: International Fine Print Dealers Association Fair at the Seventh Regiment Armory, 643 Park Avenue at 67th Street. Arion Press exhibiting recent artist books and prints in this annual fair for printed art offered by premier dealers in Old Master to Modern to Contemporary works. In addition to work by Alex Katz, R. B. Kitaj, Stephen Shore, and others, Arion Press presented new work from William T. Wiley inspired by Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot. www.printdealers.com

October 7 and 8, 2006, New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Fest, the thirteenth annual fair celebrating book arts, sponsored by Oak Knoll Books, a leading antiquarian dealer and publisher. Andrew Hoyem featured speaker on Saturday, October 7, 10:00 a.m. in a program on “The Private Press and Redefinition of Traditional Texts”. Arion Press a participant at the fair. For further information: www.oakknoll.com.

April 8, 2006, San Francisco: 31st Annual Book Arts & Printer's Fair, Fort Mason, Building A, 10-5. Admission Free. Information: www.pcba.info. Letterpress printers, book artists, calligraphers, paper marblers, publishers, and book enthusiasts gather to share their love of the word in all its forms. Our own M & H Type on hand with information about our foundry and ordering type.

January 28 and 29, 2006, Los Angeles: Los Angeles Fine Print Fair, International Fine Print Dealers Association. Los Angeles County Museum of Art LACMA West - 5th Floor. Information: www.laprintfair.com.

Recent National Exhibitions

July 10, 2008 through January 4, 2009 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art: 246 and Counting: Recent Architecture + Design Acquisitions The Arion Press edition of Invisible Cities, illustrated by Wayne Thiebaud, will be displayed with 246-plus objects of architectural, graphic, and industrial design acquired for the permanent collection since 2006.

September 13, 2008 through January 11, 2009 Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, de Young Museum Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco An exhibition of prints by Martin Puryear, including both Arion Press editions of Cane by Jean Toomer. In the Anderson Gallery.

For more information contact:

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

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