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Secker & Warburg	Secker & Warburg was founded as Martin Secker in 1910 and purchased by Fredric Warburg in 1936. In the early 1980s the firm became part of the Heinemann Group, which in turn was taken over by Reed International and then by Random House. Random House was purchased by Bertelsmann AG in 1998 and now functions as a "corporate division" of Bertelsmann. See www.bertelsmann.com. In 2004 Random House merged its imprints Harvill Press and Secker & Warburg to form Harvill Secker.	2008
Society for the Publication of American Music	The Society for the Publication of American Music (SPAM) was founded by Burnet C. Tuthill in New York in 1919. In 1969 the society was dissolved and the residue of its music stock was made over to its publisher, the Theodore Presser Company. See 'Music printing and publishing' / edited by D. W. Krummel and Stanley Sadie (1990) and www.presser.com.	2007
T. Fisher Unwin	The publishing firm of T. Fisher Unwin was the personal business of Thomas Fisher Unwin (1848-1935). His entry in the 'Oxford Dictionary of National Biography' states: "In 1926 Unwin retired to his Sussex home, and the firm merged with Ernest Benn Ltd." See the FOB entry for Ernest Benn Ltd, which was acquired by A. & C. Black Ltd in 1984.	2007
Theodore Brun Fine Editions Ltd	The publishing firm of Theodore Brun Fine Editions was active in the 1940s and 1950s. In April 1959 the lawyers Lucien A. Isaacs & Co. published a notice in 'The Times' of a petition by Quention Press Limited for the winding up of Theodore Brun Fine Editions.	2009
Ticknor and Fields	The publishing firm of Ticknor and Fields was founded in 1854 as the successor to Ticknor, Reed and Fields. In 1880 Ticknor and Fields merged with the Riverside Press, which was owned by Henry Houghton and George Mifflin, to form Houghton Mifflin and Company. See also the more detailed history of Ticknor and Fields given at sdrc.lib.uiowa.edu/lucile; 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), pp. 163 & 461-466; and the Company History page at 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
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
Verlag für die Frau	Marion Janet von Schröder founded her own publishing firm in Hamburg in 1935. The firm was originally called Verlag für die Frau, but was later renamed Marion von Schröder Verlag. The firm became part of the Axel Springer group, being part of Econ Ullstein List and then from 2000 to 2003 of Ullstein Heyne List. Ullstein Heyne List was broken up in 2003 and Marion von Schröder Verlag was sold to Bonnier AB of Stockholm. It is now an imprint of Ullstein Buchverlage. See www.bonnier.com and www.ullsteinbuchverlage.de.	2008
W. H. Freeman and Company	The publishing firm of W. H. Freeman and Company was founded by William H. Freeman in 1946. In 1986 W. H. Freeman was acquired by the Holtzbrinck group, and in 1996 it was formed into a division with Bedford Books, St Martin's Press and Worth Publishers. See www.bfwpub.com.	2009
Watergate Film Services Ltd	Watergate Film Services Ltd forms part of Peters Fraser and Dunlop. See www.pfd.co.uk.	2008

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