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| Payson and Clarke | The publishing firm of Payson and Clarke was founded by William Farquhar Payson and James L. Clarke in New York in 1924. Clarke sold his share of the company in 1927 and Payson left in 1928, leaving the firm in the hands of Edward K. Warren and Joseph Brewer. In 1930 the firm was renamed Brewer and Warren and in 1932 Brewer and Warren was purchased by Harcourt, Brace & Company. See the FOB entry for Harcourt, Brace & Company, which traces the firm to the formation of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in 2008, and see the account of Payson and Clarke in 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), p. 277. | 2008 |
| Peachpit Press | Peachpit Press, a computer trade publisher, was acquired by Addison-Wesley in 1994. Addison-Wesley was purchased by Pearson plc in 1988, and still forms part of the Pearson Group. For a time the divison within Pearson was known both as Longman Addison Wesley and as Addison Wesley Longman, but it has now reverted to Addison-Wesley. See www.pearson.com. | 2006 |
| Pear Tree Press | The Pear Tree Press was founded by James Guthrie in 1899 and remained in his personal ownership. The Pear Tree Press went out of existence when James Guthrie died in 1952. | 2006 |
| Pearn, Pollinger & Higham Ltd | The literary agency Pearn, Pollinger & Higham was founded by Laurence Pollinger and others in 1933. Its successor firms are Pollinger Ltd (founded as Laurence Pollinger Ltd in 1958) and David Higham Associates (founded 1935). Laurence Pollinger Ltd always described itself as "successor of Pearn, Pollinger & Higham". Laurence Pollinger Ltd was renamed Pollinger Ltd, and in 2014 it was purchased by Peters Fraser & Dunlop. | 2023 |
| Peck, White and Peck | Horace C. Peck was a partner in the publishing firm of H. C. Peck and Theo. Bliss (q.v.) until it was dissolved in 1862 because of Civil War financial difficulties. After the war Peck went into partnership with his son Lorenzo and William White as Peck, White and Peck until the firm went out of business in 1867. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 356. | 2009 |
| Pelligrini & Cudahy | The publishing firm of Pelligrini & Cudahy was purchased by Farrar, Straus & Young in 1953. The enlarged firm became known as Farrar, Straus & Cudahy before becoming Farrar, Straus & Giroux in 1964. In 1994 Farrar, Straus & Giroux was purchased by the Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck. See www.holtzbrinck.com. | 2008 |
| Pendulum Publications | Pendulum Publications was a publisher of poetry and popular fiction in the post-war period. According to Steve Holland, the firm went into liquidation in 1947. See Steve Holland: 'The mushroom jungle: a history of postwar paperback publishing' (1993), pp. 56 & 127. | 2008 |
| Penn Publishing Company | The Penn Publishing Company was founded in Philadelphia in 1889 by Charles C. Shoemaker. The firm went bankrupt in 1941 and its assets were acquired by the Harlem Book Company, which restarted the firm as William Penn Publishing Corporation. This new company failed in 1943, however, and its assets were acquired by Alfred A. Knopf. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 357 and see the FOB entry for Alfred A. Knopf Inc. | 2009 |
| Penrose Annual | Penrose Annual was an international annual of the graphic arts published by Lund Humphries from 1897 until 1973. See Hazel Bell: 'Personalities in publishing: John Taylor', Journal of scholarly publishing 33 (October 2001). See also the FOB entry for Lund Humphries. | 2008 |
| Pergamon Press | Pergamon Press was founded by Robert Maxwell in 1949. In 1991 it was purchased from the Maxwell Group by the Dutch firm Elsevier NV. In 1993 Elsevier NV merged with Reed International plc to form Reed Elsevier. See www.reedelsevier.com. | 2006 |
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