Signature Press Page

Publishers of books on railroads and Western history

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Signature Press has the purpose of publishing high-quality books on the topics of railroads and Western history. It is a successor and enlargement of Central Valley Railroad Publications, and has acquired rights to more than fifty former titles of Howell-North, Darwin and Superior railroad books. Both re-issues and revisions of those former titles will be issued, as well as new books from a variety of authors. Some of our new book projects are described under Forthcoming Books and Other Titles.

Our first book was John Signor's Southern Pacific's Coast Line, published in 1995. We plan to issue several books per year, with a mixture of new and reprinted titles. The intent with previously published books is to reprint those which retain adequate market interest and value. Each reprint will be improved, expanded, and corrected as needed. This will often require a new edition.

Quality books are the key part of our goals. This means not only excellent production values in layout, printing and reproduction of photographs, but excellent historical accuracy and value as well. The same standard will be applied to new and reissued books.

Signature Press is a partnership of Robert Church and Anthony Thompson (shown above at left and right, respectively), and was founded in 1993.The address for orders and business matters is 11508 Green Road, Wilton, CA 95693. The address for editorial and production matters is 2906 Forest Ave., Berkeley, CA 94705. Orders can be placed by mail to the Wilton address, by fax to (510) 540-1937, or via toll-free telephone at (800) 305-7942. For more ordering information, visit our Order Page.

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