Arno Press was a Manhattan-based publishing house founded by Arnold Zohn in 1963, specializing in reprinting rare and long out-of-print materials.

History
Zohn served 48 missions on a bomber crew during World War II, and when he returned home he entered the publishing world. He became vice-president of The New York Times, and later created his own publishing house, Arno Press, in 1963. From the beginning, Zohn's business strategy was to reprint hardcover volumes of historical works and sell large orders to the then-growing number of libraries around the country. In 1968, The New York Times purchased a controlling 51% of Arno Press, and in 1971 they purchased the rest.
On September 23, 1970, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace formally presented the United Nations with a five-volume series set, Issues Before the General Assemblies of the United Nations (1946-1965), published by Arno Press. Arnold Zohn attended the ceremony on behalf of Arno Press in the General Secretary's conference room. Joseph E. Johnson represented the Carnegie Endowment in his capacity as president, and Secretary General U Thant accepted the material on behalf of the United Nations.
Herbert Cohen was named president of Arno Press on July 14, 1975, in an announcement by Sydney Gruson, executive vice-president of The New York Times Company. He had previously served as executive vice-president of Arno Press since he joined the company in May 1972, and before that he was with Xerox Corporation's American Education Publications.
The firm continued as part of Times Books in 1980, reducing its output. In 1982 many of its titles were sold by Merrimack Book Service. The imprint was licensed to Random House in 1984, then to the Henry Holt division of Macmillan in 2000.
The Arno Press imprint was discontinued "around 1984."

Legacy
In their book American Woman, Italian Style: Italian Americana's Best Writings on Women, Carol Bonomo Albright and Christine Palamidessi Moore praised Arno Press for the "impressive and valuable array of materials on Italian Americans in the United States" in its thirty-nine-volume series, The Italian American Experience.
Princeton English Professor Autumn Womack notes that Arno Press embarked on a "landmark republication project, The American Negro: His History and Literature" which "reissued hundreds of titles by and about Black life" between 1968-1971.

Selected book series
Abercrombie & Fitch Library
Addiction in America: Drug Abuse & Alcoholism
Afro-American Culture Series (Series editor: Ulysses Lee)
America and the Holy Land
America in Two Centuries: An Inventory
American Business Abroad: Origins and Development of the Multinational Corporation (Advisor editor: Stuart Bruchey)
American Education: Its Men, Ideas & Institutions Series
American Ethnic Groups Series
American Farmers and the Rise of Agribusiness
The American Immigration Collection
American Journalists Series
American Labor: From Conspiracy to Collective Bargaining
The American Military Experience
American Negro: His History and Literature (140 vols.). (General editor: William Loren Katz.) Joint publisher: The New York Times.
American Woman: Images and Realities
Ancient Economic History
The Anti-Slavery Crusade in America (70 vols.)
Architectural Treasures of Early America (Series editors: Russell F. Whitehead and Frank Chouteau Brown)
Arno Series of Contemporary Art
Aspects of Film (Advisor editor: Garth S. Jowett)
Asian Experience in North America Series
Best Plays Series
Bestseller Society series
Big Business: Economic Power in a Free Society
British Labour Struggles: Contemporary Pamphlets 1727-1850
The Chicano Heritage Series
Children and Youth: Social Problems and Social Policy
Classics in Child Development
Classics in Psychology Series
Classics in Psychiatry series
Committee for Economic Development Research Studies
The Complete Book of Basketball: A New York Times Scrapbook History Series
Cookery Americana
The Development of Public Land Law in the United States
The Development of Science: Sources for the History of Science
Dissertations in European Economic History
Dissertations on Film
Dissertations on Sociology (Advisory editors: Harriet Zuckerman and Robert K. Merton)
The Eastern Europe Collection (Advisory editor: Harry Schwartz)
Essay Index Reprint Series
European Political Thought series (Advisory editor: J. P. (Jacob Peter) Mayer)
Eyewitness Accounts of the American Revolution
Family in America
The Far Western Frontier
The First American Frontier Series
Flight : Its First Seventy-Five Years
Foreign Travelers in America 1810-1935
Foundation of Thanatology: Arno Press Continuing Series on Thanatology
The German Air Force in World War II
Gold: Historical and Economic Aspects
Golf Digest Classics
The Great Contemporary Issues Series
Greek History Series
Greek Texts and Commentaries
Historical Issues in Mental Health
History of Accounting Series
History of Broadcasting: Radio to Television
History of Ecology Series
History of Geology Series
History of Ideas in Ancient Greece
History of Paleontology
History, Philosophy and Sociology of Science
Homosexuality: Lesbians and Gay Men in Society, History, and Literature (Series editor: Jonathan Katz)
International Finance (Advisory editor: Mira Wilkins)
The Irish-Americans Series
The Italian American Experience (39 vols.)
International Labour Office: Studies and Reports
The Leisure Class in America (Advisory editor: Leon Stein)
Literature and History of Aviation (Advisory editor: James Gilbert)
The Literature of Cinema (Advisory editor: Martin S. Dworkin)
The Literature of Death and Dying
Literature of Mystery & Detection Series
The Literature of Photography
Lost Race and Adult Fantasy Fiction
Mass Violence in America Series
Medicine and Society in America Series
Mental Illness and Social Policy: The American Experience
Metropolitan America
The Mexican American
Mid-American Frontier Collection (Advisory editor: Jerome O. Steffen)
The Middle East Collection
Modern Jewish Experience Series
Morals and Law in Ancient Greece
Museum of Modern Art Reprints
National Bureau of Economic Research Publications in Reprint series
Natural Sciences in America
Navies and Men
News in Print Series (Series editors: Mitchell Rapoport and Nancy Volkman)
The New York Times Film Reviews
Opera Biographies
Perspectives in Psychical Research Series
The Physically Handicapped in Society
Physician Travelers
Police in America
Popular Culture in America, 1800-1925 Series
Poverty U.S.A.: The Historical Record
Public Health in America
Publications of the Continuing Seminar on World Jewry
Publications of the Institute of the History of Medicine: The Johns Hopkins University
The Puerto Rican Experience Series
The Railroads
Religion in America
Research Library of Colonial Americana (General editor: Richard C. Robey)
Right Wing Individualist Tradition in America Series
Russia Observed
Science Fiction
Select Bibliographies Reprint Series
Selected Works of Anthony Trollope
Sex, Marriage and Society
Short Story Index Reprint Series
Social Problems and Social Policy : The American Experience
Social Science Studies series
Sources of Modern Photography Series
Studies in Roman History
Supernatural and Occult Fiction
Tate Gallery Publications
Technology and Society Series
The Use & Abuse of America's Natural Resources Series
United States Air Force Historical Studies
Utopian Literature Series
Vietnam Studies
World Affairs, National and International Viewpoints
World Food Supply
Zoological Series

Selected publications
Books

Belknap, Jeremy. A History of New-Hampshire (1972) ISBN 0405032706 Originally published 1791–92. A title in the Research Library of Colonial Americana series.
Birnbaum, Norman. Social Structure and the German Reformation (1980) ISBN 0405129459. A title in the Dissertations on Sociology series.
Board of Governors, Federal Reserve. International Monetary Policies (1979) ISBN 0405112394 Originally published 1947. A title in the International Finance series.
Crowninshield, Frank. Manners for the Metropolis (1975) ISBN 978-0405069079 A title in The Leisure Class in America series
Davies, Robert Bruce. Peacefully Working to Conquer the World: Singer Sewing Machines in Foreign Markets, 1854-1920 (1976) Originally presented as author's thesis at University of Wisconsin, 1967. A title in the series American Business Abroad: Origins and Development of the Multinational Corporation.
Forter, Norman L. The Roumanian Handbook (1971) ISBN 978-0405027475 A title in The Eastern Europe Collection series.
Guardians of the Poor. A Compilation of the State of Pennsylvania, from the Year 1700 to 1788, Inclusive: The Guardians of the Poor (1971) ISBN 978-0405031069 Originally published 1788. A title in the Poverty U.S.A.: The Historical Record series.
Hall, Charles E. Negroes in the United States, 1920-1932 (1969), a title in The American Negro: His History and Literature series
Farmer, John Stephen. Slang and its Analogues (1970) Originally published 1890–1904.
Kemmerer, Edwin Walter. Gold and the Gold Standard (1979) ISBN 0405112297 Originally published 1944. A title in the International Finance series.
Wallace, Lewis. Ben Hur, A Tale of the Christ (1977) ISBN 040510653X Originally published 1880.
Mason, Edward Sagendorph. Controlling World Trade: Cartels and Commodity Agreements (2nd edition, 1972) ISBN 0405045743 Originally published 1946 by the Committee for Economic Development. A title in the World Affairs, National and International Viewpoints series. The first edition Arno Press edition was in its Committee for Economic Development. Research Study series.
Petrie, W. M. Flinders. Religion and Conscience in Ancient Egypt: Lectures Delivered at University College, London (1980) ISBN 040508854X Originally published 1898.
Read, James Morgan. Atrocity Propaganda, 1914-1919 (1972) ISBN 978-0405047602 Originally published for the University of Louisville by Yale University Press, 1941.
Real Estate Record Association. History of Real Estate, Building, and Architecture in New York City During the Last Quarter of a Century (1967)
Stabler, Elizabeth (ed.). Key Issues: Issues and Events of 1978 from the New York Times Information Bank (1978). A title in the News in Print Series.
U.S. Congress, Committee on Education. Motion Picture Commission (1978). A title in the Aspects of Film series.

References

External links
A list of publications.
Arno Press at OpenLibrary
Books by Arno Press at HathiTrust
Books by Arno Press at Internet Archive