Arrow (A Division of Random House Group)
Arrow Books is a British paperback imprint founded in 1953 within the Hutchinson group, which passed via Century Hutchinson to Random House in 1989 and is now part of Penguin Random House.
- Editions tracked
- 10
- First editions
- 1
- Books
- 10
- Years
- 1982 to 1991
Arrow (A Division of Random House Group) is a publisher active from 1982. We track 10 editions it published between 1982 and 1991, 1 of them first editions across 10 books. Each book lists its first edition and the points that identify it.
About Arrow (A Division of Random House Group)
Arrow Books is a British mass-market paperback imprint, dating from 1953, that grew up within the Hutchinson publishing group and is now part of Penguin Random House UK.
Hutchinson, founded in London in 1887 by George Hutchinson, used Arrow as its paperback line: for example, Arrow issued the British paperback of Arthur C. Clarke's 2001: A Space Odyssey in October 1968. Arrow carried on after Hutchinson merged with Century Publishing in October 1985 to form Century Hutchinson. In 1989 Century Hutchinson joined Random House, trading as the Random Century Group until 1992, which is why Arrow copies from the 1990s and 2000s describe it as part of the Random House Group.
Random House merged with Penguin in 2013 to form Penguin Random House, owned by Bertelsmann, and Arrow Books remains an imprint within that group. As the 2001 example shows, an Arrow edition is often the paperback reprint of a hardback first published by a sister house such as Hutchinson.
We have not yet written the guide to Arrow (A Division of Random House Group)'s first-edition conventions. Until we do, check each book's own page: we list its points where we know them. Know how Arrow (A Division of Random House Group) marked its firsts? Tell us.
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Frequently asked questions
How many Arrow (A Division of Random House Group) books does MyVolumes track?
We track 10 editions published by Arrow (A Division of Random House Group), 1 of them first editions, across 10 books.
Where these facts come from
- Arrow Books publisher record, BookBrainz (bookbrainz.org)
- 2001: a book publishing odyssey, Companies House blog, 2018 (companieshouse.blog.gov.uk)
- Hutchinson (publisher), Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org)
- Random House, Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org)
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