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Avon Books | Avon Books was founded by the American News Corporation in 1941. In 1959 the firm was sold to the Hearst Corporation, and in 1999 it was sold by Hearst to News Corporation, where it was incorporated into HarperCollins. See www.newscorp.com and www.harpercollins.com. | 2008 |
Avalon Travel | Avalon Travel was formed in 1999 from a merger of three independent travel publishers: Moon Publications, John Muir Publications and Foghorn Press. (Each has its own entry in FOB.) Avalon Travel is now part of the Perseus Books Group. See www.perseusbooks.com. | 2008 |
Authors' Publishing Company | The Authors' Publishing Company was a cooperative publishing venture begun in New York in 1873. The firm was dissolved in 1880. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), pp. 29-30. | 2009 |
Austin & Winfield Publishers, Inc. | The legal publishing firm of Austin & Winfield Publishers, Inc. is now part of University Press of America, which in turn is part of the Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group. See www.univpress.com and www.rowmanlittlefield.com. | 2008 |
Auburn House | The publishing firm of Auburn House was acquired by Greenwood Publishing Group in 1989. See the FOB entry for Greenwood Publishing Group, which indicates that from 2008 the firm is part of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. See www.greenwood.com and www.hmhco.com. The use of the name Auburn House was discontinued from 2002, when Auburn House was absorbed into Praeger (q.v.). | 2008 |
Atlantic Monthly Press | Atlantic Monthly Press was founded in 1917 as the publishing division of the Atlantic Monthly Company. In 1993 the firm was merged with Grove Press to form Grove/Atlantic Inc. See www.groveatlantic.com. | 2008 |
Atheneum Publishers | The firm of Atheneum Publishers was founded in New York in 1959. In 1978 the firm was acquired by Charles Scribner's Sons, which in turn was acquired by the US Macmillan company in 1984. See the FOB entry for Macmillan, Inc., which describes the complex arrangements for the break-up of that company after the death of Robert Maxwell. According to the Simon & Schuster website, Atheneum was included in the part of Charles Scribner's Sons which was acquired by Simon & Schuster in 1994. Scribner and Atheneum remain Simon & Schuster imprints. See www.simonsays.com. | 2008 |
Athene Publishing Co. Ltd | The Athene Publishing Co. of Wellingborough and London was closely associated with Thorsons in the 1950s and 1960s. By 1967 the firm was described as a subsidiary of Thorsons. See the FOB entry for Thorsons, which indicates that the firm and its rights now belong to HarperCollins. See www.harpercollins.co.uk. | 2008 |
Athenaeum | The Athenaeum magazine was founded in 1828 and continued until 1921, when it was incorporated into 'The Nation'. In the 1920s the title 'The Nation and Athenaeum' was often used. In 1931 'The Nation and Athenaeum' was taken over by 'The New Statesman'. See www.newstatesman.com/nsabout.htm. | 2007 |
Astor-Honor, Inc. | The publishing firm of McDowell, Obolensky was founded in New York in 1957 by David McDowell and Ivan Obolensky. In 1960 McDowell left the firm, which continued as Ivan Obolensky, Inc. In 1967 the firm was reconstituted as Astor-Honor, Inc., publishing Astor Books and Honor Books. Astor-Honor went out of business in 1968. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), pp. 229-231.
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| B. B. Russell and Company | Benjamin B. Russell founded his publishing firm in Boston in 1865. The firm went out of existence around 1897. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 407. | 2009 |
| B. C. Decker | The Philadelphia publishing firm B. C. Decker was founded by Brian C. Decker in 1981. It was purchased by Mosby (a division of Times Mirror) in 1990. Mosby was purchased by Harcourt Brace & Company from Times Mirror in 1998, and the Harcourt Group was in turn purchased by Reed Elsevier in 2001. After the sale of the Harcourt businesses in 2007-2008 Decker remains part of Reed Elsevier. See www.elsevierdirect.com. | 2009 |
| B. J. Brimmer Company | B. J. Brimmer was a literary publishing firm which was founded in Boston in 1921. The firm went bankrupt and out of business in 1927. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), p. 71. | 2008 |
| B. T. Batsford Ltd | The publishing firm of B. T. Batsford Ltd was founded in 1843. The firm went into receivership in the 1990s and was subsequently acquired by Chrysalis Books. For a few years the imprint Batsford/Chrysalis was used. In 2005 Chrysalis Books became Anova Books, with Batsford as one of its main imprints. See www.anovabooks.com. | 2009 |
| B. W. Dodge and Company | B. W. Dodge and Company was established as a publishing firm in New York around 1903. In 1911 the firm was acquired by William Rickey and Company of New York. There is a brief FOB entry for William Rickey and Company, which went out of business before World War I. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), p. 119. | 2008 |
| B. W. Huebsch | Benjamin W. Huebsch published his first book in 1902, and continued as an independent publisher until 1925 when he merged his firm with the newly-formed Viking Press, of which he became Vice-President. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), p. 194, and see the FOB entry for Viking Press. | 2008 |
| Baillière, Tindall & Cox | The medical publishing firm of Baillière, Tindall & Cox was founded in 1869, when A. A. Tindall and William Cox purchased the business of the late Jean-Baptiste Baillière. The firm was purchased by Cassell and traded as Baillière, Tindall & Cassell in the 1960s and 1970s. It formed part of the purchase of Cassell by CBS in 1982, and then the purchase of the book-publishing business of CBS by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich in 1986. The Harcourt Group was in turn purchased by Reed Elsevier in 2001. After the sale of the Harcourt businesses in 2007-2008, Baillière, Tindall & Cox remains part of Reed Elsevier. See www.elsevierdirect.com. | 2008 |
| Baker, Crane and Day | The publishing firm of Baker, Crane and Day was founded in New York in 1846 by George Baker, Stephen M. Crane and Edward M. Day, as the successor firm to Mahlon Day (q.v.). The firm went out of business in 1848. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 114-115. | 2009 |
| Baker, Pratt and Company | The firm of D. F. Robinson and Company was founded in Hartford, Connecticut in 1828, and is the original predecessor firm of Baker and Taylor. The name of Baker and Taylor was adopted in 1885, and between 1828 and 1885 the firm had many names, including Robinson, Pratt and Company; Pratt, Woodford and Company; Farmer, Brace and Company; Blakeman and Mason; Oakley and Mason; Mason, Baker and Pratt; and Baker, Pratt and Company. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), pp. 34-35 and see the Our History page of www.btol.com. | 2009 |
| Balkema | The Dutch publishers Balkema were purchased by the Taylor & Francis Group in 2003. Balkema started publishing around 1941 (their edition of the poems of W. B. Yeats is dated 1939, but this is believed to be a false date). See www.taylorandfrancisgroup.com and www.balkema.nl. | 2008 |
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