Publisher:Arrow

Arrow is the common name for which is an imprint of Hutchinson, or Century Hutchinson, or the Random Century Group, now an imprint of Random House UK.

Usual ISBN Prefix 0099.

Historical full names and addresses

 * 1963: Arrow Books Ltd is identified as an imprint of and was located at 178-202 Great Portland Street, London, W.1.
 * 1972: Arrow Books Ltd is identified as an imprint of and was located at 3 Fitzroy Square, London W1.
 * 1976: Arrow Books Ltd is identified as an imprint of and was located at 3 Fitzroy Square, London W1.
 * 1979-1980: Arrow Books Limited is identified as an imprint of and was located at 3 Fitzroy Square, London W1P 6JD.
 * 1984-1985: Arrow Books Limited is identified as a publisher and a division of and was located at 17-21 Conway Street, London W1P 6JD.
 * 1989: Arrow Books Limited is identified as an imprint of Limited and was located at 62-65 Chandos Place, London WC2N 4NW.
 * 1991: Legend Books, an imprint of Arrow Books Limited, 20 Vauxhall Bridge Road, London, SW1V 2SA. An imprint of the Random Century Group.
 * 1996: Arrow Books Limited, 20 Vauxhall Bridge Road, London, SW1V 2SA

Arrow Books
Arrow Books has been identified as both an imprint and a publisher that has been active from at least 1963 to 1996.

A possibly diferent Arrow is listed as a London publisher in an OCLC record for a 1911 edition of 's novel The Lair of the White Worm.

Logos

 * Arrow cover logo from 1963. The stylised 'A' seems to be the origin of the spine logo. [[Image:Arrow Logo 1963.jpg]]
 * Arrow Books logo used in at least 1976. This is scanned from a title page. The same logo is used on the spine. [[Image:Arrow Books logo (1976).jpg]]
 * Arrow Books logo used in at least 1996. The left is scanned from title page, the right one from the spine. [[Image:Arrow_Logo_1996.jpg]][[Image:Arrow_1996_Spine_Logo.jpg]]

Publisher's series

 * (1976)
 * (1985 to 1989)

Arrow Science Fiction
Arrow Science Fiction is a publisher's series for and was used in at least 1976. In the referenced publication the name is only used on the front cover and was not branded with logos, etc. the way Venture SF is.


 * Series name as used in 1976 [[Image:Arrow_Science_Fiction_(1976).jpg]]

Venture SF
From 1985 to 1989 Hamlyn, later Arrow, introduced a sub-imprint "Venture SF" for a while, but kept the Hamlyn or Arrow logos on the spine. This could be regarded as a publisher series of sorts (or even a magazine, as there was one book per month planned). Series Editors were Rog Peyton and Rod Milner.

See Hamlyn's Venture SF for a detailed list

Printers
Arrow Books has used the following printing companies to manufacture its publications:
 * 1972 and 1976:
 * 1985:
 * 1989:

Verification Sources
. .  .  .  .   Bruce Sterling, 1991 Image Image:Purple-6_Title_Page.jpg from published 1963 Anne Rice, 1996 James Blish, 1984