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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
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
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
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-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

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