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Book Publishing DevelopmentBook Publishing Development was a publishing vehicle briefly used by Lionel Leventhal and his then-partner Clive Bingley. Any remaining rights are likely to belong to Greenhill Books. See www.greenhillbooks.com.2008
Bowes and Bowes Publishers LtdBowes and Bowes Publishers (as opposed to the bookshop of the same name) was part of G. P. Putnam until 1962, when Putnams was purchased by the Bodley Head. The Bodley Head was sold to Random House in 1987. Random House was purchased by Bertelsmann AG in 1998 and now functions as a "corporate division" of Bertelsmann. See www.bertelsmann.com.2008
Branden PressBranden Press was founded in Boston in 1965 by Edmund R. Brown, John William Andrews and Hugo Norden. In 1971 the firm acquired Bruce Humphries (founded by the same Edmund R. Brown in 1930), and therefore regards the Poet Lore Company and the Four Seas Company as its predecessor firms. The firm now trades as Branden Books, "award winning books since 1909". See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), pp. 64 & 73 and www.brandenbooks.com.2008
Brewer and Warren, Inc.The publishing firm of Brewer and Warren, Inc. was established in 1930 in New York as the successor firm to Payson and Clarke (q.v.). In 1931, the firm changed its name to Brewer, Warren and Putnam, and in 1932 it 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 Brewer and Warren in 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), p. 68.2008
Bright Sky PublishingHouston Non-Profit Publishing, trading as Bright Sky Publishing, announced by Twitter in February 2020 that it had permanently closed.2021
Broadway Publishing CompanyBroadway Publishing Company was founded in New York around 1901 and published fiction and poetry in the years before World War I. The firm went out of business around 1912. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), pp. 71-73.2008
Brockhampton PressThe Brockhampton Press was founded as the Brockhampton Book Company in Leicester in the 1940s. Brockhampton Press is now part of the Caxton Publishing Group, and the imprint is still in use. See www.caxtonpublishing.com.2009
Brown-ROA PublishersThe religious publishing house of Brown-ROA Publishers was acquired by Harcourt, Brace & Company in 1994. See the FOB entry for Harcourt, Brace. In 1999 Brown-ROA changed its name to Harcourt Religion Publishers, and Harcourt Religion is now part of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. See www.hmhco.com and www.harcourtreligion.com.2008
Buckle Down PublishingBuckle Down Publishing was founded as an educational publishing firm in Iowa City in 1982. In 2004 the firm was acquired by Haights Cross Communications, Inc., and incorporated as a subsidiary into Triumph Learning LLC. See www.haightscross.com.2008
Canterbury PoetsCanterbury Poets was a series issued by the Newcastle-upon-Tyne firm of Walter Scott from 1884. See the FOB entry for Walter Scott Publishing Co. Ltd.2008

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