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Harrap	The firm of Harrap was founded by George Harrap in 1901. In 1992 the firm was acquired by W. & R. Chambers (then owned by Group de la Cité), and the firm became known as Chambers Harrap. Chambers Harrap is now a Hachette Livre UK company. See www.chambersharrap.co.uk.	2007
Henry Altemus and Company	The printing and publishing firm of Henry Altemus and Company was founded in Philadelphia in 1842. Its predecessor firm was the bookbindery of Henry Altemus's father Joseph Altemus, founded in 1790. The firm closed in 1936; its assets were sold to other publishers, including Platt and Munk. See See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), pp. 9-10; sdrc.lib.uiowa.edu/lucile; and the FOB entry for Platt and Munk.	2009
Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley	The firm of Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley existed from 1829 to 1832. In 1832 Richard Bentley founded his own firm, which was eventually taken over by Macmillan in 1898. See the FOB entries for Richard Bentley & Son and for Macmillan.	2008
Henry Holt and Company	The publishing firm of Henry Holt and Company was founded in 1866. See 'The house of Holt, 1866-1946: an editorial history' by Ellen D. Gilbert (1993). In 1959-60 the firm merged with Rinehart and Company and the John C. Winston Company to form Holt, Rinehart and Winston (q.v.). Holt, Rinehart and Winston was purchased by CBS in 1967, and was then divided by sales in 1985-1986. Henry Holt and Company was sold in 1985 to the Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group and became part of Macmillan. (The remainder of the CBS publishing division was sold to Harcourt, Brace Jovanovich in 1986.) Henry Holt and Company remains an imprint of Holtzbrinck. See us.macmillan.com/HenryHolt.aspx.	2008
Henry Regnery Company	Henry Regnery founded his own publishing company in Hinsdale, Illinois, in 1947. In 1977 Regnery sold his own interest in the firm and it was renamed Contemporary Books. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), p. 313. Contemporary Books was acquired by the Tribune Company in 1993, and in 1996 became part of NTC/Contemporary. NTC/Contemporary was acquired by McGraw-Hill in 2000 as part of its purchase of Tribune Education. See www.mcgraw-hill.com.	2008
Herbert S. Stone and Company	Herbert S. Stone founded his own publishing firm in Chicago in 1896 after the dissolution of the partnership of Stone and Kimball (q.v.). In 1905 Herbert S. Stone and Company was sold to Fox, Duffield and Company. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), pp. 436-440, and see the FOB entry for Fox, Duffield and Company.	2009
Herbert Sweet and Company	The publishing firm of Herbert Sweet and Company was founded in Boston in 1845. In 1851 the firm was sold to William H. Spencer, and in 1871 sold to Lee and Shepard (q.v.). After a fire at the Lee and Shepard offices in 1872 the play division was sold to George M. Baker. The firm was renamed George M. Baker and Company. In 1892 it became the Walter H. Baker Company, and continues to trade as Baker's Plays. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), pp. 35-37, and see www.bakersplays.com.	2009
Hilary Book Co.	Hilary Book Co. was a publisher of popular fiction in the post-war period. According to Steve Holland, the firm went out of business in 1948. See Steve Holland: 'The mushroom jungle: a history of postwar paperback publishing' (1993), p. 19.	2008
Hill Publishing Company	John A. Hill began working in publishing in the 1880s, as an editor at 'Locomotive Engineer'. The Hill Publishing Company was incorporated in 1902. In 1909 McGraw Publishing Company and Hill Publishing Company merged to form the McGraw-Hill Book Company. See www.mcgraw-hill.com.	2008
Hollis and Carter Ltd	Hollis and Carter was part of the the Bodley Head publishing house from 1962 until 1987. The Bodley Head was sold to Random House in 1987. Random House was purchased by Bertelsmann AG in 1998 and now functions as a "corporate division" of Bertelsmann. See www.bertelsmann.com.	2008

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