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| Creative Age Press | Creative Age Press was founded in New York in 1941. The firm was purchased by Farrar, Straus and Young (later Farrar, Straus & Giroux) in 1951. In 1994 Farrar, Straus & Giroux was purchased by the Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck. See www.holtzbrinck.com. | 2008 |
| Cresset Press | Cresset Press was founded by Dennis Cohen in 1927. In 1967 Cohen sold the firm to Barrie & Jenkins and it subsequently passed into the ownership of Hutchinson. Like both Barrie & Jenkins and Hutchinson, Cresset Press is now an imprint of Random House UK, which is owned by Bertelsmann. See www.bertelsmann.com and www.randomhouse.co.uk. | 2006 |
| Criterion Books, Inc. | Criterion Books, Inc. was a publishing firm founded in New York in 1953. In 1960 the firm was acquired by 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. | 2008 |
| Croom Helm | The publishing firm of Croom Helm was founded by David Croom and Christopher Helm in 1972. In 1986 the firm was sold to Associated Book Publishers Ltd, which in turn was purchased by the Thomson Corporation in 1987. The use of the imprint Croom Helm ceased around 1992, by which time the firm had been incorporated into Thomson's Routledge Group. The Routledge Group was purchased by the Taylor & Francis Group in 1998. See www.taylorandfrancisgroup.com and www.routledge.com. | 2009 |
| Crosby Lockwood & Co. | The publishing firm of Lockwood & Co was established by Mark Lockwood in the early nineteenth century. On his death in the 1850s his son Crosby Lockwood took over the running of the company and changed the name of the firm to Crosby Lockwood & Co. Crosby Lockwood remained an independent firm until it was acquired by Granada Publishing in 1972. See the FOB entry for Granada Publishing, which indicates that any surviving rights will now be owned by the HarperCollins division of News Corporation. | 2006 |
| Crowell-Collier | The Crowell publishing firm was founded by the Crowell family and others in the 1870s. Originally named Crowell, Mast & Kirkpatrick and then Crowell & Kirkpatrick, it became the Crowell Publishing Company in 1902. In 1919 Crowell purchased P. F. Collier & Son and the firm was renamed Crowell-Collier Publishing Company. Crowell-Collier was purchased by the Macmillan Company of New York in 1960. The Crowell-Collier business and imprints formed part of the purchase of Macmillan Inc. by Simon & Schuster in 1994. See www.simonsays.com and also the separate FOB entry for Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. | 2009 |
| Crown Books | Crown Books (also known as the Crown Publishing Group and Crown Publishers) was founded as an imprint of the Outlet Book Company. See the FOB entry for Outlet Book Company, which indicates that in 1988 the firm was bought by Random House. Random House is owned by Bertelsmann. See www.randomhouse.com/crown and www.bertelsmann.com. | 2008 |
| Cuala Press | The Cuala Press was founded by Elizabeth Yeats in 1908 (see also the FOB entry for Dun Emer Press), and run by her and her family and friends. After the deaths of W. B. Yeats in 1939 and Elizabeth Yeats in 1940, the press ceased publishing in 1946. It was revived in 1969 by Anne Yeats and Michael B. Yeats, with Thomas Kinsella and Liam Miller. The Cuala Press finally closed down in 1986. The Cuala Press archive was donated by the Yeats family to Trinity College Dublin in 1986. | 2008 |
| Cummings and Hilliard | The publishing firm of Cummings and Hilliard was founded in Boston in 1812 by Jacob Abbott Cummings and William Hilliard. From 1823 the firm was known as Cummings, Hilliard and Company. Cummings died in 1823. In 1827 Harrison Gray became a partner and the firm was renamed Hilliard, Gray and Company. In 1843 the firm was dissolved and most of its assets were acquired by James Munroe and Company. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), pp. 110 & 203, and see the FOB entry for James Munroe and Company. | 2009 |
| Cupples and Leon | The publishing house of Cupples and Leon was founded in 1902. The firm was acquired by Platt and Munk in 1956, and Platt and Munk was in turn acquired by Grosset & Dunlap in 1977. In 1982 Grosset & Dunlap was purchased by G. P. Putnam's Sons (of the Putnam Berkley Group). Putnam Berkley was bought by Penguin in 1997, and is part of the Pearson Group. See www.pearson.com and the company history pages of us.penguingroup.com. | 2008 |
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