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| Ullstein Verlag | Ullstein Verlag was founded by the Ullstein family in Berlin in 1903. In 1959 Ullstein Verlag was acquired by the Axel Springer group. From 2000 to 2003, Ullstein was part of the Axel Springer book division called Ullstein Heyne List. Ullstein Heyne List was broken up in 2003 and Ullstein was sold to Bonnier AB of Stockholm. See www.bonnier.com and www.ullsteinbuchverlage.de. | 2008 |
| Union School Furnishing Company | Union School Furnishing Company was based in Chicago between about 1909 and about 1923. The company occasionally published books with the imprint Union School Library. See the Lucile Project entry at sdrc.lib.uiowa.edu/lucile. | 2009 |
| Victor Gollancz Ltd | Victor Gollancz founded his publishing house in 1928. It was sold by his daughter Livia Gollancz to Houghton Mifflin in 1989, and then purchased by Cassell plc in 1992. Cassell in turn was purchased by Hachette in 1998, and forms part of the Orion Publishing Group within Hachette. Victor Gollancz is an imprint of Orion. See www.hachette.com and www.orionbooks.co.uk. | 2007 |
| Voyager Books | Voyager Books/Libros Viajeros was established as a children's imprint of Harcourt, Brace & Company. See the FOB entry for Harcourt, Brace. From 2007 Voyager Books is an imprint of Harcourt Children's Books, within Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. See www.hmhco.com and www.harcourtbooks.com. | 2008 |
| W. A. Leary and Company | W. A. Leary founded his bookselling and publishing business in Philadelphia in 1836. The publishing side of the firm was discontinued in the late 1860s, although Leary's Book store continued for another hundred years before going out of business in 1968. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 248. | 2009 |
| W. H. & L. Collingridge Ltd | The publishing firm of W. H. & L. Collingridge Ltd was founded in or before the 1840s, initially publishing religious works, but later specialising in horticulture and botany. In the 1960s the firm was purchased by Paul Hamlyn, and later became part of the Hamlyn Group and the Octopus Group. See the FOB entries for Hamlyn and Octopus Publishing Group, and see www.octopus-publishing.co.uk. | 2008 |
| W. L. Allison | William L. Allison founded his publishing firm in New York in 1869, publishing low-price books and reference works, including the Arundale Edition. The firm went out of business in 1892. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 9. | 2009 |
| Wace Corporate Print | The firm of Wace Corporate Print was purchased by The Print Factory in 2005. See www.tpfgroup.co.uk. | 2008 |
| Walter Scott Publishing Co. Ltd | The Newcastle-upon-Tyne printing and publishing firm of Walter Scott came into existence in 1882 when Walter Scott took over the assets of Tyne Publishing Company. The firm declined after Scott's death in 1910 and was finally wound up in 1931. See John R. Turner: 'Conditions for success as a provincial publisher in late nineteenth-century England', Publishing history 41 (1997). | 2008 |
| Ward Lock | Ward Lock was purchased by Egmont from Pentos in 1985, and by Cassell from Egmont in 1989. Cassell was purchased by Hachette in 1998, and subsequently divided. See the FOB entry for Cassell. Ward Lock is now an imprint of the Octopus Group. | 2008 |
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