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Lemon, Unna & Durbridge	The literary agency Lemon, Unna & Durbridge was incorporated by its founder Stephen Durbridge into the agency called The Agency in 1995. See www.theagency.co.uk.	2008
Libraries Unlimited	The publishing firm of Libraries Unlimited was founded in Boulder, Colorado in 1964. In 2001 Libraries Unlimited was acquired by Greenwood Publishing Group, then part of Reed Elsevier. See the FOB entry for the Greenwood Publishing Group which indicates that from 2008 it is part of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. See www.lu.com; www.greenwood.com; and www.hmhco.com.	2008
North-Holland Publishing Company	In 1971 there was a merger of Noord Hollandsche Uitgeversmaatschappij (known in the English-speaking world as North-Holland Publishing Company), Elsevier NV and Excerpta Medica, to form Associated Scientific Publishers. The principal company name was Elsevier. In 1993 Elsevier NV merged with Reed International plc to form Reed Elsevier. See www.reedelsevier.com.	2006
Pitkin Unichrome	Pitkin Unichrome was a heritage publishing firm which was purchased by Jarrold Publishing in 2001. See the FOB entry for Jarrold Publishing, which indicates that from late 2007 the firm is in the ownership of the History Press, Charleston, South Carolina (www.historypress.net).	2008
T. Fisher Unwin	The publishing firm of T. Fisher Unwin was the personal business of Thomas Fisher Unwin (1848-1935). His entry in the 'Oxford Dictionary of National Biography' states: "In 1926 Unwin retired to his Sussex home, and the firm merged with Ernest Benn Ltd." See the FOB entry for Ernest Benn Ltd, which was acquired by A. & C. Black Ltd in 1984.	2007
U. P. James	The brothers Joseph A. James and Uriah Pierson James founded a series of publishing, printing and bookselling firms in Cincinatti from 1831, of which the most prominent were named U. P. James and J. A. and U. P. James. U. P. James engaged in all the publishing activities of their firm. The brothers dissolved their partnership in 1854, and U. P. James continued his publishing business until he closed down his firm in 1880. He died in 1889. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), pp. 224-225.	2009
Ullstein Verlag	Ullstein Verlag was founded by the Ullstein family in Berlin in 1903. In 1959 Ullstein Verlag was acquired by the Axel Springer group. From 2000 to 2003, Ullstein was part of the Axel Springer book division called Ullstein Heyne List. Ullstein Heyne List was broken up in 2003 and Ullstein was sold to Bonnier AB of Stockholm. See www.bonnier.com and www.ullsteinbuchverlage.de.	2008
Unichrome	Pitkin Unichrome was a heritage publishing firm which was purchased by Jarrold Publishing in 2001. Unichrome was then used as a Jarrold imprint. See the FOB entry for Jarrold Publishing, which indicates that from late 2007 the firm is in the ownership of the History Press, Charleston, South Carolina (www.historypress.net).	2008
Union School Furnishing Company	Union School Furnishing Company was based in Chicago between about 1909 and about 1923. The company occasionally published books with the imprint Union School Library. See the Lucile Project entry at sdrc.lib.uiowa.edu/lucile.	2009
Universal-Tandem	The US publishing house of Universal-Tandem was purchased by the British firm of Howard & Wyndham in the mid-1970s. Its titles then appeared under the imprints of Wyndham Publications and W. H. Allen. See the FOB entries for Wyndham and W. H. Allen, which indicate that the firm is now owned by Virgin Books. See www.virginbooks.com.	2008

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