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Anson D. F. Randolph and Company	Anson D. F. Randolph founded his own publishing firm in New York in 1851. Randolph went bankrupt and died in 1898, and the firm's creditors dissolved it the following year. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), pp. 382-384.	2009
Armed Services Editions	In 1943 the Council on Books in Wartime established Armed Services Editions to publish books for US armed forces personnel. From 1944 the name Editions for the Armed Services was more commonly used. The operation was closed down in 1947. See John Y. Cole (editor): 'Books in action: the Armed Services Editions' (1984).	2008
Aslib	Aslib was founded in 1924 as the Association of Special Libraries and Information Bureaux. In December 2004 Aslib went into liquidation. In 2005 its titles, name and rights were acquired by Routledge Reference, which is a division of Taylor & Francis. See www.taylorandfrancisgroup.com.	2008
Bibliothèques des Chemins de Fer	Bibliothèques des Chemins de Fer was founded by the publisher Louis Hachette in Paris in 1852. See www.hachette.com.	2008
Chapelfields Press	The Chapelfields Press was a small independent publisher, publishing pamphlets from a P. O. Box address in Coventry from about 1981 to about 1983. The UK WATCH Office can supply further details.	2014
Covici-Friede	The publishing firm of Covici-Friede was founded by Pascal Covici and Donald Friede in New York in 1928, as the successor firm to Covici-McGee (q.v.). Covici-Friede was in financial difficulties by 1935 and the firm was liquidated in 1938. In 1943 the firm's assets were purchased by Crown Publishers / the Outlet Book Company. In 1988 the Outlet Book Company was purchased by Random House. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), pp. 92-96.	2013
D. F. Robinson 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
DeWolfe, Fiske and Company	The publishing firm of DeWolfe, Fiske and Company was founded in Boston in 1880 by Perez Morton DeWolfe and Charles F. Fiske, as the successor firm to Albert W. Lovering (q.v.). From 1905 the firm was renamed DeWolfe and Fiske, ceased publishing, and became a retail and wholesale book business. The firm later became a subsidiary of Chadwick-Miller Inc., of Canton, Massachusetts. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 119.	2009
Doubleday & Company	In 1897 Frank Nelson Doubleday and Samuel McClure founded the publishing house of Doubleday & McClure. From 1900 the firm became Doubleday, Page & Company. In 1927 Doubleday merged with the George H. Doran Company and became Doubleday, Doran. The firm was renamed Doubleday & Company in 1946. Doubleday & Company was purchased by Bertelsmann in 1986, and is now a division of Random House. See www.randomhouse.com/doubleday and www.bertelsmann.com.	2009
Dragonfly Books	Dragonfly Books is a long-established imprint of Alfred A. Knopf. See the FOB entry for Knopf, which indicates that the firm was purchased by Random House in 1960. Random House is now owned by Bertelsmann. See www.randomhouse.com/knopf and www.bertelsmann.com. There have been several small unconnected publishing firms called Dragonfly Books. See e.g. www.dragonflybooks.co.uk and www.dragonflybooks.net.	2008

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