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| Robert Snow Means Co. Inc. | The Massachusetts publishing firm of Robert Snow Means Co. Inc. was purchased by McCorquodale in 1985. See the FOB entry for McCorquodale. | 2008 |
| Row, Peterson & Co. | The Illinois publishing firm of Row, Peterson & Co. merged with Harper & Brothers in 1962 to form Harper & Row. Harper & Row was acquired by News Corporation and merged with William Collins in the early 1990s to form HarperCollins. See www.newscorp.com. In 2001 HarperCollins Publishers was reorganised into two divisions: General Books and Collins. | 2009 |
| Rudd and Carleton | The publishing firm of Rudd and Carleton was founded in New York in 1857 as the successor firm to Livermore and Rudd. In 1857 Edward Livermore retired from the firm and its owners became Edward P. Rudd, his father George Rudd and George Washington Carleton. In 1861 both the Rudds retired, and the firm continued as G. W. Carleton. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 398, and see the FOB entry for G. W. Carleton. | 2009 |
| S. Colman | Samuel Colman founded his bookselling and publishing firm in Portland, Maine around 1830 and moved the firm to New York in the early 1830s. The firm went out of business in 1846. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 100. | 2009 |
| S. W. Partridge and Co. | The printing and publishing firm of S. W. Partridge and Co. was founded in 1850. According to 'The Writers' and Artists' Year Book 1939', in 1930 the firm was purchased by A. & C. Black. S. W. Partridge and Co. continued publishing until World War II, but appears to have been discontinued during the war. See the FOB entry for A. & C. Black. | 2010 |
| S. W. Tilton and Company | Stephen Willis Tilton founded the publishing firm of S. W. Tilton and Company in the 1870s, after the closure in 1874 of J. E. Tilton and Company (q.v.). Publications of S. W. Tilton and Company have been traced for the 1870s and 1880s but not later. According to the website www.tilton.org, Stephen Willis Tilton was born in 1833 and died in 1911. | 2021 |
| Saalfield Publishing Company | The Saalfield Publishing Company was founded in Akron, Ohio in 1900 by Arthur J. Saalfield, who had taken over the publishing assets of the Werner Company. The firm developed a specialism in books in the names of motion picture stars, including Shirley Temple, Marilyn Monroe and Woody Woodpecker. The firm ceased operations and went out of existence in 1977. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), p. 324. | 2009 |
| Saunders, Otley & Co. | Saunders, Otley & Co. began publishing in the 1820s. The firm eventually became one of the component or subsidiary firms of Chatto & Windus. See the FOB entry for Chatto & Windus Ltd. | 2008 |
| Scholastic Coach | Scholastic Coach was the title of a magazine launched by Scholastic, Inc. in 1931. See www.scholastic.com, which states "Today, the renamed Coach and Athletic Director is Scholastic's oldest and longest continually published magazine". | 2008 |
| Scott Foresman | The Scott Foresman imprint was founded in 1889. It is now part of the Pearson Group. See www.pearson.com. The firm of Scott Foresman & Co. was purchased by Time Inc. in 1985 and then sold to Harper & Row in 1989. News Corporation incorporated Scott Foresman into HarperCollins Educational Publishers and then sold HarperCollins Educational to Addison-Wesley in 1996. See the FOB entry for Addison-Wesley, which has been part of the Pearson Group since 1988. | 2008 |
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