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C. V. Mosby Company	The C. V. Mosby Company was founded in St Louis, Missouri, in 1906. In 1967 Mosby was acquired by Times Mirror, who sold the firm to Harcourt, Brace & Company in 1998. The Harcourt Group was in turn purchased by Reed Elsevier in 2001. After the sale of the Harcourt businesses in 2007-2008 Mosby remains part of Reed Elsevier. See www.elsevierdirect.com.	2008
Calder & Boyars	Marion Boyars joined the firm of John Calder (Publishers) Limited in 1958, and in 1963 the firm became Calder & Boyars. In 1975 the partnership broke up into the two separate firms of John Calder and Marion Boyars. See www.calderpublications.com and www.marionboyars.co.uk. The Calder & Boyars archive is in the Lilly Library, Indiana University.	2008
Charles Elkin Mathews	Charles Elkin Mathews died in 1921, and his publishing firm subsequently became known as Elkin Mathews and Marrot. See the FOB entry for Elkin Mathews and Marrot.	2008
Christy & Moore	Christy & Moore was a literary agency founded in 1912. It is now part of Sheil Land Associates Ltd.	2006
Collier Macmillan	The imprint of Collier Macmillan was formed after the merger of the Macmillan Company of New York and Crowell-Collier in 1960. (See also the FOB entry for P. F. Collier & Son.) The Collier Macmillan business and imprint formed part of the purchase of Macmillan Inc. by Simon & Schuster in 1994. See www.simonsays.com.	2008
Cornhill Magazine	Smith Elder & Co. founded and published Cornhill Magazine from 1860-1912. It was purchased by John Murray in 1912 and ceased publication in 1975. A collection of incoming manuscripts and correspondence (1840–1909) to Cornhill Magazine is housed at the Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin.	2025
Covici-McGee	The bookselling and publishing firm of Covici-McGee was founded by Pascal Covici and William McGee in New York in 1922. The imprint of Pascal Covici was also used. In 1928 the firm was reconfigured as Covici-Friede. See the FOB entry for Covici-Friede, which indicates that any surviving rights would belong to Random House, and see 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), p. 92.	2008
Coward-McCann Publishing Company	Coward-McCann Publishing Company was founded in New York in 1928 by Thomas R. Coward and James A. McCann. In 1936 the firm became an autonomous subsidiary of G. P. Putnam's Sons (later Putnam Berkley). John Geoghegan joined the firm in 1956, and in 1971 it was renamed Coward, McCann and Geoghegan. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), pp. 96-99, and the obituary of John Geoghegan, 'New York Times', 30 December 1999. The firm's autonomy declined after Geoghegan's resignation in 1981, and Putnam Berkley ceased using the Coward-McCann name around 1984. See the FOB entry for G. P. Putnam's Sons, which indicates that the firm is now part of the Penguin Group, and owned by Pearson.	2008
Crowell-Collier	The Crowell publishing firm was founded by the Crowell family and others in the 1870s. Originally named Crowell, Mast & Kirkpatrick and then Crowell & Kirkpatrick, it became the Crowell Publishing Company in 1902. In 1919 Crowell purchased P. F. Collier & Son and the firm was renamed Crowell-Collier Publishing Company. Crowell-Collier was purchased by the Macmillan Company of New York in 1960. The Crowell-Collier business and imprints formed part of the purchase of Macmillan Inc. by Simon & Schuster in 1994. See www.simonsays.com and also the separate FOB entry for Thomas Y. Crowell & Co.	2009
Dobson Banjo Music	The publishing list of Dobson Banjo Music was purchased by M. Witmark & Sons around 1890. See the FOB entry for M. Witmark & Sons, which indicates that the firm is now part of Warner/Chappell Music, Inc. See the history pages of www.warnerchappell.com.	2008

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