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Henry Regnery Company	Henry Regnery founded his own publishing company in Hinsdale, Illinois, in 1947. In 1977 Regnery sold his own interest in the firm and it was renamed Contemporary Books. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), p. 313. Contemporary Books was acquired by the Tribune Company in 1993, and in 1996 became part of NTC/Contemporary. NTC/Contemporary was acquired by McGraw-Hill in 2000 as part of its purchase of Tribune Education. See www.mcgraw-hill.com.	2008
Henry Schuman, Inc.	Henry Schuman founded his own publishing firm in New York in 1946. In 1953 the firm merged with Abelard Press to form Abelard-Schuman, Inc. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), p. 3, and see the FOB entry for Abelard-Schuman, Inc., which indicates that the firm is now in the ownership of the HarperCollins division of News Corporation.	2008
Herbert Jenkins Ltd	The novelist Herbert Jenkins founded his own publishing company in 1912. The firm of Herbert Jenkins Ltd merged with Barrie & Rockliff in 1964 to form Barrie & Jenkins. Barrie & Jenkins is now a subsidiary and imprint of Random House UK, which is owned by Bertelsmann. See www.bertelsmann.com and www.randomhouse.co.uk.	2006
Herbert S. Stone and Company	Herbert S. Stone founded his own publishing firm in Chicago in 1896 after the dissolution of the partnership of Stone and Kimball (q.v.). In 1905 Herbert S. Stone and Company was sold to Fox, Duffield and Company. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), pp. 436-440, and see the FOB entry for Fox, Duffield and Company.	2009
Herbert Sweet and Company	The publishing firm of Herbert Sweet and Company was founded in Boston in 1845. In 1851 the firm was sold to William H. Spencer, and in 1871 sold to Lee and Shepard (q.v.). After a fire at the Lee and Shepard offices in 1872 the play division was sold to George M. Baker. The firm was renamed George M. Baker and Company. In 1892 it became the Walter H. Baker Company, and continues to trade as Baker's Plays. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), pp. 35-37, and see www.bakersplays.com.	2009
Heyne Verlag	Wilhelm Heyne founded the Wilhelm Heyne Verlag in Dresden in 1934. In 2000 Heyne Verlag was sold to the Axel Springer group, who created a book division called Ullstein Heyne List. Ullstein Heyne List was broken up in 2003 and Heyne was sold to Verlagsgruppe Random House GmbH. Random House is owned by Bertelsmann. See www.randomhouse.de/heyne and www.bertelsmann.com.	2008
High Hill Press	High Hill Press was the personal publishing company of Ian Norrie. The firm was founded as High Hill Books in 1960, and developed in association with the High Hill Bookshop in Hampstead, London. The High Hill Bookshop was closed in 1988. See Hazel Bell: 'Personalities in publishing: Ian Norrie', Journal of scholarly publishing (October 2000).	2008
Hilary Book Co.	Hilary Book Co. was a publisher of popular fiction in the post-war period. According to Steve Holland, the firm went out of business in 1948. See Steve Holland: 'The mushroom jungle: a history of postwar paperback publishing' (1993), p. 19.	2008
Hill & Wang	The publishing firm of Hill & Wang was founded by Lawrence Hill and Arthur Wang in 1956. Hill & Wang was purchased by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in 1971. In 1994 Farrar, Straus & Giroux was purchased by the Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck. See www.holtzbrinck.com.	2008
Hill Publishing Company	John A. Hill began working in publishing in the 1880s, as an editor at 'Locomotive Engineer'. The Hill Publishing Company was incorporated in 1902. In 1909 McGraw Publishing Company and Hill Publishing Company merged to form the McGraw-Hill Book Company. See www.mcgraw-hill.com.	2008

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