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Thomas Y. Crowell & Co.	Thomas Y. Crowell established his firm as a bindery in 1834 and began publishing books in 1876. See also the FOB entry for Crowell-Collier. In 1978 the firm of Thomas Y. Crowell was purchased by Harper & Row, and it remains an imprint of HarperCollins. See the FOB entry for Harper & Row. The FOB compilers were in touch with both Simon & Schuster and HarperCollins in 2006 and were able to confirm that most Crowell-Collier rights belong to Simon & Schuster and all Thomas Y. Crowell rights belong to HarperCollins.	2009
Thomas Yoseloff, Inc.	Thomas Yoseloff founded his own publishing firm in New York in 1955. In 1958 Thomas Yoseloff, Inc. merged with A. S. Barnes & Co., and Yoseloff became an imprint of A. S. Barnes. "Yoseloff and his son Julien remained in control of the firm until 1978, when it was acquired by Leisure Dynamics, Incorporated of San Diego, California" (quoted from 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), p. 390). See also the obituary of Thomas Yoseloff by his daughter Tamar Yoseloff, 'The Guardian', 13 February 2008. Soon after the acquisition of the firm by Leisure Dynamics, the names of Thomas Yoseloff and A. S. Barnes disappeared as imprints.	2008
Thorndike Press	Thorndike Press was founded in 1980 in Thorndike, Maine. The firm was purchased in 1999 by the Thomson Gale division of the Thomson Corporation. See www.gale.com.	2006
Thorp Springs Press	Writer and publisher Paul Foreman founded Thorp Springs Press in 1971 in Berkeley, California. Foreman and his family moved to Austin, Texas, in 1979 opening the Brazos Book Shop. After publishing nearly 100 books and two journals, Hyperion and Tawté, Foreman closed the bookshop and Thorp Springs Press ceased operations in the early 1990s. Paul Foreman died in 2012.	2025
Thorsons	Thorsons was purchased by William Collins in 1989. William Collins became wholly owned by News Corporation in 1990, and was then incorporated into HarperCollins Publishers. See www.newscorp.com. The Thorsons name is still used by News Corporation.	2008
Three Continents Press	Donald Herdeck established Three Continents Press in 1971, focusing on new works or works in translation from Africa, America, and the Caribbean. By 1993 Herdeck was publishing works by writers living and writing in five continents. Herdeck frequently made co-publishing arrangements with Heinemann Educational Books and later with a portion of Longman's Drumbeat Series. Poor health prompted Herdeck to sell 167 of his titles to Lynne Rienner, a Colorado publisher, in August 1996. He retained rights to 60 titles and marketed these, and several additional contract commitments, under the new company name of Passeggiata Press. Herdeck died in 2005, and the last book bearing the Passeggiata Press imprint was published by his widow Margaret in 2007.	2025
Thunder's Mouth	Thunder's Mouth was a specialist publisher and an imprint of Avalon. Following the acquisition of Avalon by the Perseus Books Group in 2007, the Thunder's Mouth imprint was closed down. See www.perseusbooks.com.	2008
Ticknor and Company	The publishing firm of Ticknor and Company was founded in 1885 by Benjamin H. Ticknor, Thomas B. Ticknor and George F. Godfrey, when the firm of James R. Osgood and Company (q.v.) was forced out of business for the second time. Ticknor and Company went bankrupt in 1889 and its assets were acquired by Houghton Mifflin. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 347, and see www.hmco.com.	2009
Ticknor and Fields	The publishing firm of Ticknor and Fields was founded in 1854 as the successor to Ticknor, Reed and Fields. In 1880 Ticknor and Fields merged with the Riverside Press, which was owned by Henry Houghton and George Mifflin, to form Houghton Mifflin and Company. See also the more detailed history of Ticknor and Fields given at sdrc.lib.uiowa.edu/lucile; 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), pp. 163 & 461-466; and the Company History page at www.hmco.com.	2009
Ticknor, Reed and Fields	William D. Tickner was a partner in Allen and Ticknor (1832-1834). He then ran his own publishing company in Boston from 1834. In 1843 John Reed and James T. Fields became partners in the firm of William D. Ticknor and Company, and in 1849 the firm was renamed Ticknor, Reed and Fields. Reed withdrew from the company in 1854 and it continued initially as Ticknor and Fields. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), pp. 461-466, and see the FOB entry for Ticknor and Fields.	2009

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