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Fred J. Hamill Company	The Fred J. Hamill Company flourished in the 1890s, after which its publishing list was purchased by M. Witmark & Sons. See the FOB entry for M. Witmark & Sons, which indicates that the firm is now part of Warner/Chappell Music, Inc. See the history pages of www.warnerchappell.com.	2008
General Hall	General Hall was founded as an academic publishing firm, with a specialism in sociology. In 2000 the firm was acquired by the Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group. See www.rowmanlittlefield.com.	2008
George H. Doran Company	The George H. Doran Company merged with Doubleday in 1927 to form Doubleday, Doran "the largest publishing concern in the English-speaking world" (Random House website). Doubleday, Doran was renamed Doubleday & Company in 1946 and is now part of Random House. Random House is owned by Bertelsmann. See the FOB entry for Doubleday; www.randomhouse.com/doubleday; and www.bertelsmann.com. For the life and career of George H. Doran (1869-1956), see 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), pp. 119-122.	2008
Greenhaven Press	Greenhaven Press was founded in the 1970s as the publisher of Opposing Viewpoints. The firm was purchased in 2000 by the Thomson Gale division of the Thomson Corporation. See www.gale.com.	2006
Greenwood-Heinemann	Greenwood Press was founded as an academic and educational publisher in 1967. The firm was acquired in 1969 by Williamhouse-Regency, then by Congressional Information Service and then by Elsevier (later Reed Elsevier). In 1996 the Greenwood Publishing Group merged with Heinemann Publishing to create Greenwood-Heinemann, which later became part of Harcourt Education. See the entries in FOB for all the firms bearing the name of Heinemann. From 2008, the Greenwood Publishing Group (including Heinemann USA) is part of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. See www.greenwood.com and www.hmhco.com.	2008
H. B. Pearson	H. B. Pearson founded his publishing firm in Cincinnati around 1850. The firm went out of existence around 1855. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 356.	2009
H. C. Peck and Theo. Bliss	The publishing firm of H. C. Peck and Theo. Bliss was founded in Philadelphia in 1850 by Horace C. Peck and Theodore Bliss. The firm got into financial difficulties during the Civil War and the partnership was dissolved in 1862. After the war Peck and Bliss briefly formed their own separate firms, which have entries in FOB. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 356.	2009
H. S. King & Co.	Henry S. King founded the firm of H. S. King & Co. in 1868. His business was purchased by Charles Kegan Paul in 1877. It was then incorporated into Kegan Paul, Trench & Co. from 1878 and Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co. from 1889. In 1912 Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co. merged with George Routledge & Sons to form Routledge & Kegan Paul. The Routledge Group was purchased by the Taylor & Francis Group in 1998. See www.taylorandfrancisgroup.com and www.routledge.com.	2008
Haldeman-Julius Company	The Haldeman-Julius Company was a publishing firm founded in 1922 as the successor company to the Appeal Publishing Company (q.v.). The firm published many titles as Big Blue Books and Little Blue Books. In 1964 the firm was prosecuted for selling books on sex education, and went out of business. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), pp. 176-178.	2008
Halstead Press	According to the catalogue of the archive of Angus and Robertson in the State Library of New South Wales, Angus and Robertson purchased the printing firm Eagle Press in the 1920s and in 1929 renamed it Halstead Press. In 1972 Halstead Press was sold by Angus and Robertson to John Sands Pty Ltd. See www.johnsands.com.au.	2009

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