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Avalon Travel	Avalon Travel was formed in 1999 from a merger of three independent travel publishers: Moon Publications, John Muir Publications and Foghorn Press. (Each has its own entry in FOB.) Avalon Travel is now part of the Perseus Books Group. See www.perseusbooks.com.	2008
Avon Books	Avon Books was founded by the American News Corporation in 1941. In 1959 the firm was sold to the Hearst Corporation, and in 1999 it was sold by Hearst to News Corporation, where it was incorporated into HarperCollins. See www.newscorp.com and www.harpercollins.com.	2008
B. B. Russell and Company	Benjamin B. Russell founded his publishing firm in Boston in 1865. The firm went out of existence around 1897. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 407.	2009
B. W. Dodge and Company	B. W. Dodge and Company was established as a publishing firm in New York around 1903. In 1911 the firm was acquired by William Rickey and Company of New York. There is a brief FOB entry for William Rickey and Company, which went out of business before World War I. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), p. 119.	2008
Baillière, Tindall & Cox	The medical publishing firm of Baillière, Tindall & Cox was founded in 1869, when A. A. Tindall and William Cox purchased the business of the late Jean-Baptiste Baillière. The firm was purchased by Cassell and traded as Baillière, Tindall & Cassell in the 1960s and 1970s. It formed part of the purchase of Cassell by CBS in 1982, and then the purchase of the book-publishing business of CBS by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich in 1986. The Harcourt Group was in turn purchased by Reed Elsevier in 2001. After the sale of the Harcourt businesses in 2007-2008, Baillière, Tindall & Cox remains part of Reed Elsevier. See www.elsevierdirect.com.	2008
Baker, Crane and Day	The publishing firm of Baker, Crane and Day was founded in New York in 1846 by George Baker, Stephen M. Crane and Edward M. Day, as the successor firm to Mahlon Day (q.v.). The firm went out of business in 1848. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 114-115.	2009
Baker, Pratt and Company	The firm of D. F. Robinson and Company was founded in Hartford, Connecticut in 1828, and is the original predecessor firm of Baker and Taylor. The name of Baker and Taylor was adopted in 1885, and between 1828 and 1885 the firm had many names, including Robinson, Pratt and Company; Pratt, Woodford and Company; Farmer, Brace and Company; Blakeman and Mason; Oakley and Mason; Mason, Baker and Pratt; and Baker, Pratt and Company. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), pp. 34-35 and see the Our History page of www.btol.com.	2009
Balkema	The Dutch publishers Balkema were purchased by the Taylor & Francis Group in 2003. Balkema started publishing around 1941 (their edition of the poems of W. B. Yeats is dated 1939, but this is believed to be a false date). See www.taylorandfrancisgroup.com and www.balkema.nl.	2008
Barrie & Jenkins	The firm of Barrie & Jenkins was formed in 1964 by the merger of Herbert Jenkins and Barrie & Rockliff. Barrie & Jenkins is now a subsidiary and imprint of Random House UK, which is owned by Bertelsmann. See www.bertelsmann.com and www.randomhouse.co.uk.	2008
Barrie & Rockliff	The firm of Barrie & Rockliff merged with Herbert Jenkins in 1964 to form Barrie & Jenkins. Barrie & Jenkins is now a subsidiary and imprint of Random House UK, which is owned by Bertelsmann. See www.bertelsmann.com and www.randomhouse.co.uk.	2008

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