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Abelard-Schuman Ltd | The records of Abelard-Schuman Ltd of London are held by Glasgow University Library. See www.gla.ac.uk/archives, which states that Abelard Schuman Ltd was founded in 1971 as a publishing subsidiary of Blackie & Son Ltd (see also the complex FOB entry for Blackie), and that by 2002 the firm was dormant. For the original US company of the same name, see the FOB entry for Abelard-Schuman, Inc. | 2008 |
Abelard Press | Abelard Press was founded in New York in 1948 by Lew Schwartz. In 1953 the firm merged with Henry Schuman, Inc. to form Abelard-Schuman, Inc. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), p. 3, and see the FOB entry for Abelard-Schuman, Inc., which indicates that the firm is now in the ownership of the HarperCollins division of News Corporation. | 2014 |
Abel Tompkins | The publishing firm of Abel Tompkins was founded in Boston around 1838, with strong connections to the Universalist movement. The firm ceased publishing around 1864. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 468. | 2014 |
Abbey Press | The publishing firm of Abbey Press was founded in New York probably around 1899. Abbey Press published a wide range of fiction and literary criticism between 1900 and 1903. In 1903 the firm filed for bankruptcy. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 3. | 2014 |
A. Williams and Company | Alexander Williams founded his bookselling and publishing firm in Boston in 1855. In 1883 Williams retired and the firm was renamed Cupples, Upham and Company (later J. G. Cupples Company). See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), pp. 111 & 491 and see the FOB entry for the J. G. Cupples Company. | 2009 |
A. Wessels and Company | The publishing house of A. Wessels and Company was founded in New York in 1900. In 1911 the firm was nearing bankruptcy and was liquidated by a committee of New York publishers. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), p. 379. | 2009 |
A. W. Shaw Company | A. W. Shaw Company was an early acquisition of the McGraw-Hill Book Company in 1928. See www.mcgraw-hill.com. | 2008 |
A. S. Barnes & Co. | The publishing firm of A. S. Barnes & Co. was founded in Hartford, Connecticut in 1838 by Alfred S. Barnes. Barnes had various partners in the early years and the firm briefly used names including Alfred S. Barnes and Charles Davies and A. S. Barnes & Burr, before reverting to A. S. Barnes & Co. In 1958 A. S. Barnes & Co. merged with Thomas Yoseloff, Inc. "Yoseloff and his son Julien remained in control of the firm until 1978, when it was acquired by Leisure Dynamics, Incorporated of San Diego, California" (quoted from 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), p. 390). See also the obituary of Thomas Yoseloff by his daughter Tamar Yoseloff, 'The Guardian', 13 February 2008. Soon after the acquisition of the firm by Leisure Dynamics, the names of Thomas Yoseloff and A. S. Barnes disappeared as imprints. | 2009 |
A. Roman Publishing Company | Anton Roman founded his publishing firm in San Francisco in 1860. The firm went out of business around 1888 and Roman became a real estate agent and loan broker. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 400. | 2009 |
A. M. Robertson and Company | Alexander Mitchell Robertson founded his bookselling and publishing firm in San Francisco in 1889. The firm went out of existence around 1931. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 398. | 2009 |
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> Abelard-Schuman |
| Abelard-Schuman, Inc. | Abelard-Schuman, Inc. was founded in New York in 1953 by the merger of Abelard Press and Henry Schuman, Inc. (q.v.). See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), p. 3. The firm was acquired by the International Textbook Company (later Intext) in 1969. In 1974 Intext was purchased by Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., which in turn was purchased by Harper & Row (now HarperCollins) in 1978. HarperCollins is a division of News Corporation. See www.newscorp.com. | 2008 |
| Ablex Publishing | Ablex Publishing was founded in 1976. The firm was acquired by Elsevier Science in 1997, and subsequently became part of the Greenwood Publishing Group. See the FOB entry for Greenwood Publishing Group, which indicates that from 2008 the firm is part of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. See www.greenwood.com and www.hmhco.com. The use of the name Ablex was discontinued from 2002, when Ablex was absorbed into Praeger (q.v.). | 2014 |
| Academic Press | Academic Press was founded by Walter Johnson and Kurt Jacoby in 1942. It was acquired by the Harcourt Group (formerly part of Reed-Elsevier) and after the sale of the Harcourt businesses in 2007-2008 it remains part of Reed Elsevier. See www.elsevierdirect.com. | 2008 |
| Ace Books | Ace Books was founded in New York in 1952 as a division of A. A. Wyn, Inc., publishing science fiction and general fiction. In 1969 the firm was acquired by Charter Communications, Inc., and in 1977 Charter Communications was purchased by Grosset & Dunlap. See the FOB entry for Grosset & Dunlap, which indicates that the firm was acquired by Putnam Berkley in 1982. Putnam Berkley was bought by Penguin in 1997, and is part of the Pearson Group. See www.pearson.com; the company history pages of us.penguingroup.com; and 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), pp. 5-8. | 2013 |
| Addax | There are several companies in the USA and Europe which bear the name of Addax (the desert antelope). The publishing firm of Addax was acquired by the Rowman & Littlefield Group in 2002 and now forms part of Taylor Trade Publishing. See www.rlpgtrade.com. | 2008 |
| Addison-Wesley | Addison-Wesley published its first book in 1942. Addison-Wesley was purchased by Pearson plc in 1988, and still forms part of the Pearson Group. For a time the divison within Pearson was known both as Longman Addison Wesley and as Addison Wesley Longman, but it has now reverted to Addison-Wesley. See www.pearson.com. | 2008 |
| Adlard Coles Nautical | Adlard Coles Ltd was founded as Robert Ross & Co. Ltd in the 1930s. In 1962 the firm was purchased by Rupert Hart-Davis Ltd, which eventually became part of HarperCollins. Adlard Coles Ltd was sold by HarperCollins in 1990 to A. & C. Black and renamed Adlard Coles Nautical. See the FOB entry for A. & C. Black; www.acblack.com and www.bloomsbury.com/uk. | 2014 |
| Advance Publishing Company | Advance Publishing Company was founded in 1867 as the book publishing arm of 'Advance' magazine, a Congregationalist church weekly based in Chicago. Advance Publishing Company ceased publishing around 1920, although 'Advance' magazine continued in existence and later underwent a number of mergers. Following the union of the Congregational Christian Churches and the Evangelical and Reformed Church in 1957, the parent church would now be the United Church of Christ. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), pp. 4-5. | 2009 |
| AGS Publishing | The firm of AGS Publishing was purchased by Pearson Education from WRC Media in June 2005. See www.pearsoned.com. | 2008 |
| Airlife Publishing | The firm of Airlife Publishing was acquired by the Crowood Press in 2003. See www.crowoodpress.co.uk. | 2008 |
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