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| Lothrop, Lee and Shepard | In 1904 the publishing firm of Lee and Shepard (q.v.) purchased the bankrupt Lothrop Publishing Company and became Lothrop, Lee and Shepard. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), pp. 250-252. Lothrop, Lee and Shepard was purchased by Crown Publishers in 1943 and then by William Morrow & Company in 1968. See the FOB entry for William Morrow & Company, which indicates that the firm was acquired by the Hearst Corporation in 1981 and then in 1999 sold by Hearst to News Corporation, where it was incorporated into HarperCollins. See www.newscorp.com and www.harpercollins.com. | 2009 |
| Lotos | The German publishing firm of Lotos is now part of Verlagsgruppe Random House GmbH. Random House is owned by Bertelsmann. See www.randomhouse.de/ansataintegrallotos and www.bertelsmann.com. | 2008 |
| Loujon Press | Loujon Press was the private press of Louise and Jon Webb, and produced collectors' works of authors including Henry Miller and Charles Bukowski. See the account of the firm by Jeff Weddle in 'Publishing history' 58 (2005). Jon Webb died in 1971; in 2005 Louise Webb was living in Slidell, Louisiana. | 2008 |
| Lucas Bookselling Services | Lucas Bookselling Services was purchased by Collet's Holdings Ltd in 1989. See the FOB entry for Collet's Holdings Ltd, which indicates that the firm collapsed and went out of business in 1993. | 2008 |
| Lucent Books | Lucent Books was founded in 1987 as a sister company to Greenhaven Press. The firm was purchased in 2000 (with Greenhaven Press) by the Thomson Gale division of the Thomson Corporation. See www.gale.com. | 2006 |
| Lund Humphries | "Lund Humphries is a long-established publisher of illustrated art books" - www.lundhumphries.com. In 1999 the firm was taken over by Ashgate Publishing. See www.ashgate.com. | 2008 |
| Lydia R. Bailey | The Bailey family printing and publishing firm was founded in Lancaster, Pennsylvania in 1772 and moved to Philadelphia in 1778. The firm was first named Francis Bailey, and became F. and R. Bailey in 1797. From 1808 the firm traded as Lydia R. Bailey. It went out of business in 1861. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 33. | 2009 |
| Macgibbon and Kee Ltd | The publishing firm of Macgibbon and Kee was founded in London in 1949. The firm developed close links with Rupert Hart-Davis Ltd (q.v.) and, like Hart-Davis, was acquired by Granada Publishing (in 1968). In 1972 Granada created Hart-Davis, Macgibbon Ltd, although Macgibbon and Kee remained registered as a company. The archives of Macgibbon and Kee are in the University of Glasgow Library, and the following sentence is taken from their catalogue: "The company appears to have been dissolved in c.1983 when Granada sold its publishing interests to the Scottish publishers William Collins, Sons & Co Ltd, Glasgow." See the FOB entry for William Collins and www.newscorp.com. | 2014 |
| McDougal Littell | The publishing firm of McDougal Littel was founded in 1969. In 1994 the firm was purchased by Houghton Mifflin, and it is now part of the Holt McDougal division of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. See www.mcdougallittell.com and www.hmhco.com. | 2008 |
| Michael Imison Playwrights | Michael Imison Playwrights was incorporated into Alan Brodie Representation Ltd in 1997. See www.alanbrodie.com. | 2008 |
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