The Hammer Creek Press was operated by John Fass out of his single-room apartment at the Bronx YMCA from the 1950s to the early 1960s. During the 1920s and 1930s Fass had operated another press – the Hell-Box Press – out of the same space, while at the same time running the Harbor Press with Roland and Elizabeth Wood. He had also briefly worked alongside the famous book designer Bruce Rogers in the early 1920s, when they were both employed by the printing and publishing house of William Edwin Rudge.

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

• Fass, John. The Work of The Hammer Creek Press, 1950-1956. New York, 1956. Z232.H15 F3 1956

Special Collections has the following secondary resources relating to the Hammer Creek Press:

• Burke, Jackson. John S. Fass & the Hammer Creek Press. Rochester: Rochester Institute of Technology, 1998. Z232.H347 B87 1998
• Fass, John. The Work of The Hammer Creek Press, 1950-1956. New York: The Hammer Creek Press, 1956. Z232.H15 F3 1956