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| Harborough Publishing Co. Ltd | Harborough Publishing was a publisher of popular fiction in the post-war period. In 1948, the firm was acquired by Raymond and Lilian Locker. In January 1954 Harborough Publishing "suddenly ceased trading". See Steve Holland: 'The mushroom jungle: a history of postwar paperback publishing' (1993), p. 26. | 2008 |
| Harleyford Books | Harleyford Books was purchased by Arms & Armour in 1981. Arms & Armour was purchased by Cassell in 1987. Cassell was purchased by Hachette in 1998, and subsequently divided. See the FOB entry for Cassell. It is not believed that the name "Harleyford" has been used for publishing since 1981. | 2008 |
| Harold Shaw Publishers | Harold Shaw Publishers was founded as a Christian publishing house in Wheaton, Illinois. In 2000 the firm was purchased by Random House, which is owned by Bertelsmann, and Shaw Books is now part of the WaterBrook Multnomah group within Random House. See www.randomhouse.com and www.bertelsmann.com. | 2008 |
| Harvill Press | Harvill Press was founded in 1946 by Manya Harari and Marjorie Villiers. The firm was purchased in 1955 by William Collins, but became independent again in 1995 through a management buyout. In 2002 Harvill Press was purchased by the Random House Group. Random House is a "corporate division" of Bertelsmann AG. See www.bertelsmann.com, www.randomhouse.com and www.randomhouse.co.uk. In 2004 Random House merged its imprints Harvill Press and Secker & Warburg to form Harvill Secker. | 2008 |
| Harwood Academic Publishers | The firm of Harwood Academic Publishers was purchased in 1978 by Gordon & Breach. Gordon & Breach was in turn purchased in 2001 by the Taylor & Francis Group. See the FOB entry for Gordon & Breach and www.taylorandfrancisgroup.com. | 2008 |
| Haworth Press | The Haworth Press, Inc. was officially incorporated in 1978 by Bill Cohen and Patrick McLoughlin. Haworth Press was acquired by Taylor & Francis at the end of 2007. See www.haworthpress.com and www.taylorandfrancisgroup.com. | 2008 |
| Hayden-McNeil Publishing | Hayden-McNeil Publishing was founded by Patrick Olson in Plymouth, Michigan in 1992. In 2008 the firm was purchased by the Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck and became part of Macmillan. See www.holtzbrinck.com and us.macmillan.com. | 2008 |
| Heinemann Publishing | Heinemann Publishing (also known as Heinemann USA) was founded in 1978 as a US subsidiary of William Heinemann Ltd (q.v.). In 1996 Heinemann Publishing merged with the Greenwood Publishing Group to create Greenwood-Heinemann. See the entries in FOB for all the firms bearing the name of Heinemann. From 2008, Heinemann USA is a subsidiary of the Greenwood Publishing Group, which in turn is part of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. See www.heinemann.com; www.greenwood.com; and www.hmhco.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 |
| 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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