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Nimbus	Nimbus: A Magazine of Literature, the Arts, and New Ideas began publication in December 1951 as a quarterly magazine edited by Tristram Hull for the magazine’s thirteen issues. Hull was later joined by co-editors Ivo Jarosy and David Wright. In 1957 Christopher Logue became co-editor with Hull and the name of the magazine was changed to Nimbus: New English Review. The magazine was published by John Trafford at the Halcyon Press. It ceased publication in 1958. A collection of editorial files for all issues of the magazine except the last are housed at the Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin.	2025
Pickering & Inglis	The religious publishing firm of Pickering & Inglis merged with Marshall, Morgan and Scott in the mid-1980s to form Marshall Pickering. See the FOB entry for Marshall Pickering, which indicates that any surviving rights will now belong to the Zondervan division of News Corporation. See www.zondervan.com.	2007
Richard Marek Publishers, Inc.	Richard Marek Publishers, Inc. was established as an autonomous imprint of Putnam Berkley in New York in 1977. In 1981 Richard Marek closed down the firm and moved to St Martin's Press where he used the imprint of Richard Marek Books. In 1985 he became President of E. P. Dutton and Company (q.v.), where he did not arrange his own imprint. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), p. 222, and Richard Marek's webpage with the Independent Editors Group: www.bookdocs.com/richard_marek.htm.	2008
Robert Snow Means Co. Inc.	The Massachusetts publishing firm of Robert Snow Means Co. Inc. was purchased by McCorquodale in 1985. See the FOB entry for McCorquodale.	2008
Scholar, Inc.	The firm of Scholar, Inc. was purchased by Pearson Education in 2003. See www.pearsoned.com.	2008
Sheldon and Company	In 1853 Smith Sheldon purchased the publishing firm of Lamport, Blakeman and Law and renamed it Sheldon, Lamport and Blakeman. The firm later traded as Sheldon, Blakeman and Company, Sheldon and Company and I. E. Sheldon, before going out of business in 1898. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 420.	2009
Swets & Zeitlinger Publishers	Swets & Zeitlinger was founded in 1916 and based in Lisse, the Netherlands. In 2003 Swets & Zeitlinger was purchased by the Taylor & Francis Group. See www.taylorandfrancisgroup.com and www.tandf.co.uk/swets.asp.	2008
Swets Test International	Swets Test International was previously a division of Swets & Zeitlinger. In 2003 Swets Test International was acquired by the Harcourt Assessment division of Reed Elsevier. Harcourt Assessment was purchased by Pearson in 2008. See www.harcourtassessment.com and pearsonassess.com.	2008
T. B. Harms Company	The music publishing firm of T. B. Harms was established in New York City around 1892. In 1929 the firm was purchased by Warner Brothers Pictures, and it is identified as one of the predecessor firms of Warner/Chappell Music, Inc. in the history pages of www.warnerchappell.com.	2007
Thomas Seltzer, Inc.	The publishing firm of Scott and Seltzer was founded in New York in 1919 by Temple Scott and Thomas Seltzer. In 1920 Scott left and the firm continued as Thomas Seltzer, Inc. The firm became the publisher of D. H. Lawrence, E. E. Cummings and Marcel Proust, but was pursued by the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice and came close to bankruptcy. In 1926 the firm's publishing business was acquired by Albert and Charles Boni, who continued with occasional use of the Seltzer imprint. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), pp. 54-57 and see the FOB entry for Albert and Charles Boni.	2008

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