The Harbor Press was founded by John Fass and Roland and Elizabeth Wood in New York in 1925. At the same time, John Fass was running the Hell-Box Press out of his single-room apartment at the YMCA. The Harbor Press specialized in printing works by American authors, who often signed the books produced by the Press. The Press also printed many of the books issued by the Limited Editions Club. The Harbor Press closed in 1939, after which John Fass went on to found the Hammer Creek Press.

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

• Alighieri, Dante. The Comedy of Dante Alighieri, Florentine by Birth but Not in Conduct. New York: 1934-1940. PQ4315 .H7 1934
• Faulkner, William. Idyll in the Desert. New York: 1931. 818 F273id
• La Motte-Fouqué, Friedrich. Undine. New York: 1930. PT2389.L12 U4 1930
• Payne, Roger. Extracts from the Diary of Roger Payne. New York: 1928. Z269 .P36 1928