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| Arcadia House | The publishing firm of Arcadia House was founded in 1934. In 1948 the firm was acquired by Crown Publishing Group, part of the Outlet Book Company. The Arcadia House imprint was used until about 1964. See the FOB entries for Outlet and Crown, which indicate that in 1988 the firm was bought by Random House. Random House is owned by Bertelsmann. See www.randomhouse.com/crown and www.bertelsmann.com. See also 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), p. 15. | 2008 |
| Archer Press | Archer Press was a publisher of popular fiction, founded in 1948 by Raymond and Lilian Locker. In January 1954 Archer Press "suddenly ceased trading". See Steve Holland: 'The mushroom jungle: a history of postwar paperback publishing' (1993), p. 26. | 2008 |
| Architectural Press | Architectural Press was purchased by Butterworths from the Maxwell Communications Corporation in 1988. Butterworths is now a division of Reed Elsevier, also trading as LexisNexis Butterworths. See www.butterworths.com. | 2007 |
| Ardsley House Publishers, Inc. | Ardsley House Publishers, Inc. was a publisher of college textbooks. In 1998 the firm was acquired by the Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group. See www.rowmanlittlefield.com. | 2008 |
| Arena Publishing Company | Arena Publishing Company was founded in Boston in 1890 by Benjamin Orange Flower, in association with 'Arena' magazine. The firm went bankrupt in 1896. It was restructured in 1897. Flower left the firm and it ceased publishing books, although the 'Arena' magazine continued for some time (the first of many magazines to be called 'Arena'). Flower died in 1918. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), pp. 28-29. | 2009 |
| Ariel Books | The firm of Ariel Books was purchased by Farrar, Straus and Young (later Farrar, Straus & Giroux) in 1953. In 1994 Farrar, Straus & Giroux was purchased by the Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck. See www.holtzbrinck.com. | 2008 |
| Arkana | The Arkana list and imprint were bought by Penguin from International Thomson in 1988. Since that time the imprints of Arkana Penguin, Penguin Arkana and Viking Arkana have been used, as well as Arkana, but with decreasing frequency. | 2007 |
| Armed Services Editions | In 1943 the Council on Books in Wartime established Armed Services Editions to publish books for US armed forces personnel. From 1944 the name Editions for the Armed Services was more commonly used. The operation was closed down in 1947. See John Y. Cole (editor): 'Books in action: the Armed Services Editions' (1984). | 2008 |
| Arms & Armour | Arms & Armour was founded by Lionel Leventhal in 1966. In the 1980s ownership passed to Link House Books and then to United Newspapers. In 1986-87 Arms & Armour was purchased by Cassell from United Newspapers. Cassell was purchased by Hachette in 1998, and subsequently divided. See the FOB entry for Cassell. | 2008 |
| Arno Press | Arno Press was founded in New York in 1962 by Arnold Zohn. The New York Times acquired a controlling interest in the firm in 1968 and purchased the rest of the firm in 1971. In the early 1980s the firm continued as part of Times Books but reduced its output, and in 1982 many of its titles were sold to Merrimack Book Service. See the FOB entry for Times Books, which indicates that the imprint was licensed to Random House from 1984 and then to the Henry Holt division of Macmillan since 2000. It appears that the Arno Press imprint was discontinued around 1984. | 2008 |
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