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Magic Carpet Books	Magic Carpet Books was established as a children's imprint of Harcourt, Brace & Company. See the FOB entry for Harcourt, Brace. From 2007 Magic Carpet Books is an imprint of Harcourt Children's Books, within Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. See www.hmhco.com and www.harcourtbooks.com.	2008
Major Books	Major Books was founded by Milton Luros in 1975 as a division of Chatsworth Enterprises in Chatsworth, California. The firm appears to have gone out of business around 1980. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), p. 220.	2008
Manor Books	Manor Books was founded around 1972 in New York as a paperback publisher. The firm's founding president was Walter Weidenbaum. Manor Books appears to havce gone out of business around 1981. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), p. 220.	2008
Manthorne and Burack, Inc.	Manthorne and Burack was a small publishing house in Boston, Massachusetts. In 1945 the firm merged with John W. Luce and Company. See the FOB entry for John W. Luce and Company, which indicates that the merged firm ceased publishing new titles in 1947, and went out of business shortly afterwards. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), p. 214.	2008
Marboro Books	The bookselling and mail order chain Marboro Books was acquired by Barnes & Noble in 1979-80. See www.barnesandnobleinc.com.	2008
Mason Brothers	The publishing firm of Mason Brothers was founded in New York in 1855 by Daniel Gregory Mason and Lowell Mason Jr. In 1867 the firm decided to concentrate on music and sold its literary output to the firm of Smith Sheldon. Mason Brothers was dissolved on the death of Daniel Gregory Mason in 1869. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 296.	2009
Mason, Baker and Pratt	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
Matthew Bender	Matthew Bender is a legal publisher. The firm was acquired by Reed Elsevier in 1998. See www.bender.com and www.reedelsevier.com.	2006
McCall Books	The publishing firm of McCall Books was founded in New York in 1968 by Norton Simon. The firm was acquired by Saturday Review Industries in 1971 and was renamed Saturday Review Press. In 1973 Saturday Review Press was sold to E. P. Dutton and Company, which is now part of the Penguin Group. See www.penguin.com and 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), p. 328.	2014
McMullen Books	The firm of McMullen Books was purchased by Farrar, Straus and Cudahy (later Farrar, Straus & Giroux) in 1958. In 1994 Farrar, Straus & Giroux was purchased by the Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck. See www.holtzbrinck.com.	2008

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