Established in San Francisco in 1919 by the brothers Edwin and Robert Grabhorn, the Grabhorn Press operated until 1965. After Edwin Grabhorn's death, Robert Grabhorn co-founded Grabhorn-Hoyem in 1966 with Andrew Hoyem, who later founded the Arion Press. Much of the Press's work appears under the imprint of other presses and publishers, though it also produced work under its own imprint. Many Grabhorn Press books feature illustrations be Valenti Angelo, Mallette Dean, and Mary Grabhorn (the daughter of Edwin Grabhorn). Jane Grabhorn, the wife of Robert Grabhorn, ran the Jumbo Press and Colt Press.

Special Collections has the following items printed at or published by the Grabhorn Press:

• An Anglo-Saxon Gnomic Poem, from the Manuscript Cotton Tiberius B I. San Francisco: 1968. PR1720 .A25 1968
• Bradford, John. John Bradford’s Historical &c. Notes on Kentucky, from the Western Miscellany Compiled by G. W. Stipp, in 1827. San Francisco: 1932. F454 .B86 1932
• Derby, George Horatio. Phoenixiana: A Collection of the Burlesques & Sketches of John Phoenix, Alias John P. Squibob, Who Was, in Fact, Lieutenant George H. Derby, U. S. A. San Francisco: 1937. 818 D444p2
• Fogazzaro, Antonio. Eden Anto. San Francisco: 1930. 094.1 F687e
• Garrard, Lewis Hector. Wah-To-Yah & the Taos Trail: Prairie Travel and Scalp Dances, with a Look at Los Rancheros from Muleback and the Rocky Mountain Campfire. San Francisco: 1936. F786 .G233 1936
• Ghirardelli, Ynes. The Artist H. Daumier: Interpreter of History. San Francisco: 1940. NC1499.D3 G48 1940
• Grabhorn Press. Nineteenth-Century Type, Displayed in 18 Fonts, Cast by United States Founders, Now in the Cases of the Grabhorn Press. San Francisco: 1959. Z250 .G715 1959
• The History of Susanna. San Francisco: 1948. 229.6 B47Ed
• Hymns to Aphrodite. San Francisco: 1927. PA4025.H8 E34 1927
• Joan the Maid of Orleans, Being That Portion of the Chronicles of St. Denis Which Deals with Her Life and Times, from the Chroniques de France Printed in Paris in 1493, with Reproductions of Woodcuts from the Original Edition. San Francisco: 1938. DC103 .G73 1938
• Pennsylvania Court of Quarter Sessions (Philadelphia County). Commonwealth v. Gordon, et al.: The Opinion of Judge Bok, March Eighteenth, 1949. New York: 1949. KFP571.O2 A52 1949
• Poe, Edgar Allan. The Journal of Julius Rodman. San Francisco: 1947. [under the imprint of the Colt Press] 818 P75jo
• Rogers, Fred Blackburn. Soldiers of the overland ; being some account of the services of General Patrick Edward Conner & his volunteers in the old West. San Francisco: 1938. 978 C762Xr6
• Shakespeare, William. The Taming of the Shrew. San Francisco: 1967. PR2832 .A1 1967
• Taggard, Genevieve. Hawaiian Hilltop. San Francisco: 1923. PS3539.A23 H3 1923
• Wagner, Henry. Henry R. Wagner’s The plains and the Rockies ; a bibliography of original narratives of travel and adventure, 1800-1865. San Francisco: 1937. Z1251.W5 W2 1937

Special Collections has the following secondary resources relating to the Grabhorn Press:

• Grabhorn Press. Nineteenth-Century Type, Displayed in 18 Fonts, Cast by United States Founders, Now in the Cases of the Grabhorn Press. San Francisco: Sold by D. Magee, 1959. Z250 .G715 1959
• Hart, James. A Tribute to Edwin Grabhorn & the Grabhorn Press. San Francisco: Friends of the San Francisco Public Library, 1969. Z232.G72 H3 and Z232.G72 H3 1969
• Heller, Elinor. Bibliography of the Grabhorn Press, 1915-1956. San Francisco: Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1975. Z232.G72 H4 1975