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Alfred H. King, Inc.	Alfred H. King, Inc. was a publishing firm in New York in the early 1930s. In 1935 the firm was purchased by Julian Messner. See the FOB entry for Julian Messner, Inc., which indicates that the firm was acquired by Simon & Schuster in the 1960s. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), pp. 235-237 and www.simonsays.com.	2008
Anthony Blond Ltd	Anthony Blond Ltd was founded in 1957. See Anthony Blond's own account in his book 'Jew made in England'. His publishing firm went through many changes and mergers, being known as Blond & Briggs Ltd and also Holt-Blond in the 1970s, and Muller, Blond & White Ltd in the 1980s. Muller, Blond & White Ltd was purchased by Century Hutchinson in 1987, and is now part of Random House UK, which is owned by Bertelsmann. See www.bertelsmann.com and www.randomhouse.co.uk. (There is further information in Anthony Blond's obituary, The Times, 1 March 2008.)	2008
Arcadia House	The publishing firm of Arcadia House was founded in 1934. In 1948 the firm was acquired by Crown Publishing Group, part of the Outlet Book Company. The Arcadia House imprint was used until about 1964. See the FOB entries for Outlet and Crown, which indicate 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. See also 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), p. 15.	2008
Ardsley House Publishers, Inc.	Ardsley House Publishers, Inc. was a publisher of college textbooks. In 1998 the firm was acquired by the Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group. See www.rowmanlittlefield.com.	2008
Arthur L. Humphreys	Mr Arthur Lee Humphreys was a bookseller who also published books on an occasional basis from the 1890s to the 1930s. From about 1890 he was one of the proprietors of Hatchards and his books were mostly published from Hatchards' address at 187 Piccadilly, London. In 1924 he sold his interest in Hatchards (see 'The Times', 31 March 1924), but continued to publish occasionally, mostly his own writings, for another ten years or so. He died in 1946.	2009
Ascherberg, Hopwood & Crew	The music publishing firm of Ascherberg, Hopwood & Crew was formed in 1906 by the merger of Eugene Ascherberg & Co. and Hopwood & Crew. In 1970 the firm was acquired by Chappell Music, now part of Warner Chappell Music. See 'Music printing and publishing' / edited by D. W. Krummel and Stanley Sadie (1990) and www.warnerchappell.co.uk.	2007
Ashendene Press	The Ashendene Press was founded by C. H. St John Hornby in 1894 and remained in his personal ownership. The Ashendene Press went out of existence in 1935, after the publication of its 'Bibliography'. Hornby died in 1946.	2008
Astor-Honor, Inc.	The publishing firm of McDowell, Obolensky was founded in New York in 1957 by David McDowell and Ivan Obolensky. In 1960 McDowell left the firm, which continued as Ivan Obolensky, Inc. In 1967 the firm was reconstituted as Astor-Honor, Inc., publishing Astor Books and Honor Books. Astor-Honor went out of business in 1968. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), pp. 229-231.	2008
Auburn House	The publishing firm of Auburn House was acquired by Greenwood Publishing Group in 1989. See the FOB entry for Greenwood Publishing Group, which indicates that from 2008 the firm is part of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. See www.greenwood.com and www.hmhco.com. The use of the name Auburn House was discontinued from 2002, when Auburn House was absorbed into Praeger (q.v.).	2008
B. W. Huebsch	Benjamin W. Huebsch published his first book in 1902, and continued as an independent publisher until 1925 when he merged his firm with the newly-formed Viking Press, of which he became Vice-President. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), p. 194, and see the FOB entry for Viking Press.	2008

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