Skip to the content
Organisation

Crossing Press

Ten Speed Press is a publishing house founded in Berkeley, California, in 1971 by Phil Wood. It was bought by Random House in February 2009 and became part of their Crown Publishing Group division. Ten Speed's all-time best-seller is What Color is Your Parachute?

Also recorded as The Crossing Press · New/Books · New Books

Crossing Press

Founded
1969
Founder
John Gill · Elaine Goldman Gill
Headquarters
Trumansburg · Freedom

VALÉORINE Encyclopedia

VALÉORINE documentary reading

Documentary summary

Ten Speed Press is a publishing house founded in Berkeley, California, in 1971 by Phil Wood. It was bought by Random House in February 2009 and became part of their Crown Publishing Group division. Ten Speed's all-time best-seller is What Color is Your Parachute?

Admitted source layer · organised and presented by VALÉORINE

Reference Check

Propose documentary evidence for Crossing Press. A contribution is never written directly as fact: identity, source, rights and evidence gates still decide.

Sign in to contribute

World of VALÉORINE

Documentary connections

Only confirmed graph relationships appear here. Images are shown only when their identity and reuse rights both pass the documentary gate.

Documentary evidence

Documentary basis

Authority files

wikidata · Q123423120 · wikipedia · Crossing Press

In this article

  1. 01Foundation and history
  2. 02Notes, references and evidence

The Encyclopedia exists whether or not anything is for sale. Corrections are recorded rather than overwritten, and every version of this record is kept. Published 17 August 2026.

Elsewhere in Publishers and printers

For owners

Own an object connected with Crossing Press?

A specialist will read what you send and tell you what the house can establish, what it cannot, and whether the object is suited to sale. There is no charge and no obligation. The object stays with you throughout; nothing is shipped to us unless it is arranged in writing beforehand.