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Christopher Helm	Christopher Helm was purchased by A. & C. Black Publishers Ltd in 1989. A. & C. Black is still trading under its own name (see www.acblack.com), but is owned by Bloomsbury Publishing.	2008
Cleaver-Hume Press Ltd	Cleaver-Hume Press Ltd was founded in the 1940s as a publisher mostly of scientific and technical works. In 1963 the firm entered into an alliance with Macmillan UK and by 1967 had been absorbed by Macmillan. An article in 'Macmillan News', December 1963, suggested that the firm might be renamed Macmillan & Cleaver, but this does not appear to have happened. See the FOB entry for Macmillan, which indicates that the company is now wholly owned by the Georg von Holtzbrinck publishing group.	2008
Collet's Holdings Ltd	Collet's Holdings Ltd ran bookshops and a publishing company in London which were closely associated with the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. The firm operated from the 1940s to the 1990s, but after severe trading difficulties in 1991 and 1992 it went out of business in 1993.	2008
Coventry & Hollier	The music publishing firm of Coventry & Hollier was active in London from about 1833 to 1849. Some of the firm's business was acquired by Novello in 1849, after which the firm traded briefly as Charles Coventry, before selling much of the rest of the business to Novello in 1851. Novello is now part of Chester Music and Novello & Company. See 'Music printing and publishing' / edited by D. W. Krummel and Stanley Sadie (1990) and www.chesternovello.com.	2007
Croom Helm	The publishing firm of Croom Helm was founded by David Croom and Christopher Helm in 1972. In 1986 the firm was sold to Associated Book Publishers Ltd, which in turn was purchased by the Thomson Corporation in 1987. The use of the imprint Croom Helm ceased around 1992, by which time the firm had been incorporated into Thomson's Routledge Group. The Routledge Group was purchased by the Taylor & Francis Group in 1998. See www.taylorandfrancisgroup.com and www.routledge.com.	2009
Cummings and Hilliard	The publishing firm of Cummings and Hilliard was founded in Boston in 1812 by Jacob Abbott Cummings and William Hilliard. From 1823 the firm was known as Cummings, Hilliard and Company. Cummings died in 1823. In 1827 Harrison Gray became a partner and the firm was renamed Hilliard, Gray and Company. In 1843 the firm was dissolved and most of its assets were acquired by James Munroe and Company. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), pp. 110 & 203, and see the FOB entry for James Munroe and Company.	2009
D. C. Heath and Company	The educational and academic publishing firm of D. C. Heath and Company, based in Lexington, Massachusetts, was acquired by the Houghton Mifflin Company in 1995. See www.hmco.com.	2006
Darton & Harvey	The publishing firm of Darton & Harvey was established in London in 1791. At various times in the next fifty years, it was known as Harvey & Darton and as Darton, Harvey & Darton. The business was sold to Robert Yorke Clarke in 1847 and it closed in 1852.	2008
El Corno Emplumado	Edited by Margaret Randall and Sergio Mondragón in Mexico City from 1962–1969, El Corno Emplumado (The Plumed Horn) was a bilingual quarterly that published key works by Latin and North American counterculture figures and was distributed worldwide. The journal closed in mid-1969 having published 31 issues and a dozen books. A collection of production materials as well as extensive correspondence with contributors (1962–1967) is housed at the Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin. Additional materials are housed at the Fales Library, New York University.	2025
Fiction House	Fiction House was a publisher of popular fiction from the 1930s to the 1950s. According to Steve Holland, the firm went out of business in 1959. See Steve Holland: 'The mushroom jungle: a history of postwar paperback publishing' (1993), pp. 14 & 52.	2008

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