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Thomas Y. Crowell & Co.	Thomas Y. Crowell established his firm as a bindery in 1834 and began publishing books in 1876. See also the FOB entry for Crowell-Collier. In 1978 the firm of Thomas Y. Crowell was purchased by Harper & Row, and it remains an imprint of HarperCollins. See the FOB entry for Harper & Row. The FOB compilers were in touch with both Simon & Schuster and HarperCollins in 2006 and were able to confirm that most Crowell-Collier rights belong to Simon & Schuster and all Thomas Y. Crowell rights belong to HarperCollins.	2009
Three Continents Press	Donald Herdeck established Three Continents Press in 1971, focusing on new works or works in translation from Africa, America, and the Caribbean. By 1993 Herdeck was publishing works by writers living and writing in five continents. Herdeck frequently made co-publishing arrangements with Heinemann Educational Books and later with a portion of Longman's Drumbeat Series. Poor health prompted Herdeck to sell 167 of his titles to Lynne Rienner, a Colorado publisher, in August 1996. He retained rights to 60 titles and marketed these, and several additional contract commitments, under the new company name of Passeggiata Press. Herdeck died in 2005, and the last book bearing the Passeggiata Press imprint was published by his widow Margaret in 2007.	2025
Ticknor and Company	The publishing firm of Ticknor and Company was founded in 1885 by Benjamin H. Ticknor, Thomas B. Ticknor and George F. Godfrey, when the firm of James R. Osgood and Company (q.v.) was forced out of business for the second time. Ticknor and Company went bankrupt in 1889 and its assets were acquired by Houghton Mifflin. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 347, and see www.hmco.com.	2009
Ticknor, Reed and Fields	William D. Tickner was a partner in Allen and Ticknor (1832-1834). He then ran his own publishing company in Boston from 1834. In 1843 John Reed and James T. Fields became partners in the firm of William D. Ticknor and Company, and in 1849 the firm was renamed Ticknor, Reed and Fields. Reed withdrew from the company in 1854 and it continued initially as Ticknor and Fields. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), pp. 461-466, and see the FOB entry for Ticknor and Fields.	2009
Times Mirror Company	The 'Los Angeles Times' was founded in 1881. In 1884 the newspaper bought its Mirror Company printers and became Times Mirror Company. In 2000 the Times Mirror Company was purchased by the Tribune Company of Chicago. See 'Los Angeles Times', 13 March 2000, and www.tribune.com.	2008
Tolley Publishing Company	The Tolley Publishing Company was founded in 1916 by Charles H. Tolley and operated as a legal and business publishing house until 1996. In 1996 Tolley Publishing was purchased by Reed Elsevier, who created a new division called Butterworth Tolley. See www.reedelsevier.com.	2008
Tyne Publishing Company	Tyne Publishing Company was the predecessor company of the Newcastle-upon-Tyne firm of Walter Scott, which took over all its assets in 1882. See the FOB entry for Walter Scott Publishing Co. Ltd.	2008
U. P. James	The brothers Joseph A. James and Uriah Pierson James founded a series of publishing, printing and bookselling firms in Cincinatti from 1831, of which the most prominent were named U. P. James and J. A. and U. P. James. U. P. James engaged in all the publishing activities of their firm. The brothers dissolved their partnership in 1854, and U. P. James continued his publishing business until he closed down his firm in 1880. He died in 1889. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), pp. 224-225.	2009
Union School Furnishing Company	Union School Furnishing Company was based in Chicago between about 1909 and about 1923. The company occasionally published books with the imprint Union School Library. See the Lucile Project entry at sdrc.lib.uiowa.edu/lucile.	2009
Useful Knowledge Publishing Company	Useful Knowledge Publishing Company was one of a number of companies founded by the bookseller and publisher John B. Alden. The firm began trading in 1882 and went out of existence in 1883. See the FOB entry for John B. Alden and 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 6.	2009

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