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Hawthorn Books, Inc. | The publishing firm of Hawthorn Books, Inc. was founded by Kenneth S. Giniger in 1952 as a subsidiary of Prentice-Hall. In 1967 the firm was sold to the Clement Stone interests, and in 1977 it was sold on to W. H. Allen. The firm was closed in 1977, but its publishing assets were bought by E. P. Dutton. The imprint Hawthorn/Dutton was then used for a few years. See John Tebbel: 'A history of book publishing in the United States', Volume IV (1981), pp. 318-319, and see the FOB entry for E. P. Dutton, which indicates that the firm is now part of the US Penguin group. See us.penguingroup.com. | 2008 |
Haworth Press | The Haworth Press, Inc. was officially incorporated in 1978 by Bill Cohen and Patrick McLoughlin. Haworth Press was acquired by Taylor & Francis at the end of 2007. See www.haworthpress.com and www.taylorandfrancisgroup.com. | 2008 |
Harwood Academic Publishers | The firm of Harwood Academic Publishers was purchased in 1978 by Gordon & Breach. Gordon & Breach was in turn purchased in 2001 by the Taylor & Francis Group. See the FOB entry for Gordon & Breach and www.taylorandfrancisgroup.com. | 2008 |
Harvill Press | Harvill Press was founded in 1946 by Manya Harari and Marjorie Villiers. The firm was purchased in 1955 by William Collins, but became independent again in 1995 through a management buyout. In 2002 Harvill Press was purchased by the Random House Group. Random House is a "corporate division" of Bertelsmann AG. See www.bertelsmann.com, www.randomhouse.com and www.randomhouse.co.uk. In 2004 Random House merged its imprints Harvill Press and Secker & Warburg to form Harvill Secker. | 2008 |
Harrap | The firm of Harrap was founded by George Harrap in 1901. In 1992 the firm was acquired by W. & R. Chambers (then owned by Group de la Cité), and the firm became known as Chambers Harrap. Chambers Harrap is now a Hachette Livre UK company. See www.chambersharrap.co.uk. | 2007 |
Harper & Row | Harper & Row was founded in 1962 by the merger of the firms of Harper & Brothers and Row, Peterson & Co. Both the predecessor firms have their own entry in FOB. Harper & Row was acquired by News Corporation in 1987 and merged with William Collins in the early 1990s to form HarperCollins. See www.newscorp.com. | 2006 |
Harper & Brothers | The firm of Harper & Brothers was founded in New York City in 1817 by James and John Harper. It was originally called J. and J. Harper. In 1962 Harper & Brothers merged with the Illinois publishing firm of Row, Peterson & Co. to form Harper & Row. Harper & Row was acquired by News Corporation in 1987 and merged with William Collins in the early 1990s to form HarperCollins. See www.newscorp.com. | 2009 |
Harold Shaw Publishers | Harold Shaw Publishers was founded as a Christian publishing house in Wheaton, Illinois. In 2000 the firm was purchased by Random House, which is owned by Bertelsmann, and Shaw Books is now part of the WaterBrook Multnomah group within Random House. See www.randomhouse.com and www.bertelsmann.com.
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Harmony Books | Harmony Books was an imprint of Crown Publishing Group, part of the Outlet Book Company. See the FOB entries for Outlet and Crown, which indicate that in 1988 the firm was bought by Random House. Random House is owned by Bertelsmann. See www.randomhouse.com/crown and www.bertelsmann.com. | 2008 |
Harleyford Books | Harleyford Books was purchased by Arms & Armour in 1981. Arms & Armour was purchased by Cassell in 1987. Cassell was purchased by Hachette in 1998, and subsequently divided. See the FOB entry for Cassell. It is not believed that the name "Harleyford" has been used for publishing since 1981. | 2008 |
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| Hayden-McNeil Publishing | Hayden-McNeil Publishing was founded by Patrick Olson in Plymouth, Michigan in 1992. In 2008 the firm was purchased by the Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck and became part of Macmillan. See www.holtzbrinck.com and us.macmillan.com. | 2008 |
| Headline | Headline was founded by Tim Hely-Hutchinson and others in 1986. In 1993 the firm merged with Hodder & Stoughton to form Hodder Headline. Hodder Headline was purchased by Hachette from W. H. Smith in 2004. See www.hodderheadline.co.uk. | 2006 |
| Health Economic Evaluations Database | Health Economic Evaluations Database (HEED) was founded as a joint initiative of the Office of Health Economics and the International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers and Associations (IFPMA). In 2006 HEED was acquired by Wiley. See www.wiley.com. | 2008 |
| Heinemann Educational Books Ltd | Heinemann Educational Books Ltd (HEB) was created in 1961 from the educational department of William Heinemann Ltd, and established as a separate company with many overseas offices. See the FOB entry for William Heinemann Ltd for the sales of the company during the 1980s and 1990s. Unlike William Heinemann Ltd, however, Heinemann Educational remained part of the Reed Elsevier group, as an imprint of Harcourt Education International. Harcourt Education International (including the African Writers Series) was sold by Reed Elsevier in 2007 to Pearson. See www.pearson.com and www.heinemann.co.uk. | 2008 |
| Heinemann Publishing | Heinemann Publishing (also known as Heinemann USA) was founded in 1978 as a US subsidiary of William Heinemann Ltd (q.v.). In 1996 Heinemann Publishing merged with the Greenwood Publishing Group to create Greenwood-Heinemann. See the entries in FOB for all the firms bearing the name of Heinemann. From 2008, Heinemann USA is a subsidiary of the Greenwood Publishing Group, which in turn is part of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. See www.heinemann.com; www.greenwood.com; and www.hmhco.com. | 2008 |
| Heinemann Young Books | See the FOB entry for William Heinemann Ltd for the early history of the firm. Shortly after the purchase of William Heinemann Ltd by Random House from Reed Elsevier in 1997, the former Reed children's publishing imprints (including Heinemann Young Books, Methuen Children's Books and Mammoth) were sold to Egmont. See www.egmont.co.uk. | 2008 |
| Heinemann-Raintree | The US library reference publisher Heinemann-Raintree was separated from the purchase of Harcourt by Houghton Mifflin in 2007. In early 2008 Heinemann-Raintree was sold to Pearson, and in September 2008 the firm was sold on by Pearson to Capstone Publishers. See www.heinemannraintree.com and www.capstonepub.com. | 2008 |
| Henry Altemus and Company | The printing and publishing firm of Henry Altemus and Company was founded in Philadelphia in 1842. Its predecessor firm was the bookbindery of Henry Altemus's father Joseph Altemus, founded in 1790. The firm closed in 1936; its assets were sold to other publishers, including Platt and Munk. See See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), pp. 9-10; sdrc.lib.uiowa.edu/lucile; and the FOB entry for Platt and Munk. | 2009 |
| Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley | The firm of Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley existed from 1829 to 1832. In 1832 Richard Bentley founded his own firm, which was eventually taken over by Macmillan in 1898. See the FOB entries for Richard Bentley & Son and for Macmillan. | 2008 |
| Henry F. Anners | Henry F. Anners was a publishing house founded in Philadelphia in 1842. The firm went out of business around 1850. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 22. | 2009 |
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