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Hamish Hamilton	Hamish Hamilton founded his own publishing company in 1931. He sold the firm to Thomson Publications in 1966. Hamish Hamilton Ltd was bought by Penguin UK in March 1985 as part of their purchase of Thomson Books. Penguin UK is part of Pearson plc. See www.pearson.com.	2008
Hamlyn	Paul Hamlyn sold his first publishing firm in 1964, and went on to form the Octopus Publishing Group, of which Hamlyn was a major imprint. The Octopus Group was purchased by Hachette in 2001. See www.hachette.com and www.octopus-publishing.co.uk.	2008
Hamming-Whitman Company	Hamming-Whitman Company was a publishing firm based in Chicago. In 1916 the firm defaulted on its bills and was taken over by its principal creditor Western Printing and Lithographing Company (later Western Publishing Company). Western moved the firm to its own headquarters in Racine, Wisconsin, and renamed it Whitman Publishing Company. By the 1980s the name Whitman was no longer being used for publishing, but continued for games and puzzles until Western went out of business. See the FOB entry for Western Publishing Company, which indicates that it is now part of the Golden Books division of Random House; www.randomhouse.com/golden; and 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), p. 383. There is no connection with the firm of Albert Whitman & Co. of Niles, Illinois (founded 1919; www.awhitmanco.com), although Albert Whitman had been one of the founders of Hamming-Whitman.	2008
Hanley & Belfus	Hanley & Belfus is a Philadelphia-based medical publisher. In 2002 the firm was purchased by Elsevier Science, a division of Reed Elsevier, from the Holtzbrinck Group. See www.elsevierhealth.com.	2008
Hans Zell Publishing	Hans Zell was previously an imprint of the Bowker-Saur division of Reed Elsevier. See the FOB entries for Bowker and Saur. This arrangement came to an end in 1998, and Hans Zell Publishing Consultants is now an independent firm, with a specialism in books on African subjects, based in Lochcarron in the Scottish Highlands. See www.hanszell.co.uk.	2008
Harborough Publishing Co. Ltd	Harborough Publishing was a publisher of popular fiction in the post-war period. In 1948, the firm was acquired by Raymond and Lilian Locker. In January 1954 Harborough Publishing "suddenly ceased trading". See Steve Holland: 'The mushroom jungle: a history of postwar paperback publishing' (1993), p. 26.	2008
Harcourt Young Classics	See the FOB entry for Harcourt, Brace & Company on the separation in 2007 of companies bearing the Harcourt name. From 2007 Harcourt Young Classics is owned by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. See www.hmhco.uk and www.harcourtbooks.com.	2008
Harcourt, Brace & Company	Harcourt, Brace & Company was founded by Alfred Harcourt and Donald Brace in 1919. In the 1950s the firm became known as Harcourt, Brace & World and then Harcourt Brace Jovanovich (HBJ); later it reverted to Harcourt Brace. In 1998 Harcourt Brace & Company was acquired by Reed Elsevier, and in December 2007 Reed Elsevier sold Harcourt Education, Harcourt Trade and Greenwood-Heinemann to Houghton Mifflin. From 2008 the imprint Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is in use. See www.harcourt.com and www.hmhco.com. Also from 2008, Harcourt Assessment was sold to Pearson. See www.harcourtassessment.com and pearsonassess.com.	2008
Harleyford Books	Harleyford Books was purchased by Arms & Armour in 1981. Arms & Armour was purchased by Cassell in 1987. Cassell was purchased by Hachette in 1998, and subsequently divided. See the FOB entry for Cassell. It is not believed that the name "Harleyford" has been used for publishing since 1981.	2008
Harmony Books	Harmony Books was an imprint of Crown Publishing Group, part of the Outlet Book Company. 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.	2008

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