Kim Merker founded the Stone Wall Press in Iowa City in 1957, having previously worked with Harry Duncan at the Cummington Press. For the most part, the Press restricted itself to printing original works, usually poetry, though it occasionally reprinted poetry already in the canon. Merker preferred a spare and classical style of typography, a style he also used in books published at the Windhover Press, which he founded at the University of Iowa and ran concurrently with the Stone Wall Press. Merker died in 2013.

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

• Justice, Donald. A Local Storm. Iowa City: 1963. PS3519.U825 L6 1963

Special Collections has the following secondary resources relating to the Stone Wall Press:

• Berger, Sidney. Printing & the Mind of Merker: A Bibliographical Study. New York: Grolier Club, 1997. Z232.M565 B47 1997