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Lamson, Wolffe and Company	The publishing firm of Lamson, Wolffe and Company was founded in Boston in 1895 by E. R. Lamson and W. B. Wolffe. The firm went out of business in 1899. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 245.	2009
Lawrence Hill & Co. Publishers	Lawrence Hill founded his own publishing firm in 1972, shortly after the sale of his previous firm, Hill & Wang (q.v.). He continued publishing until his death in 1988. After his death the firm became part of Chicago Review Press, where the imprint Lawrence Hill Books is still used. See www.chicagoreviewpress.com.	2008
Learning Company	The Learning Company is a specialist software firm which was acquired by Riverdeep in 2001. See the FOB entry for Riverdeep, which indicates that the firm is now part of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. See www.hmhco.com.	2009
Limited Editions Club	http://limitededitionsclub.com/ 1-212-737-7600	2021
Lion Books, Inc.	Lion Books was a small publishing house founded by Martin Goodman in New York in 1949. The firm was briefly first known as Select Publications. Both Select Publications and Lion Books used the imprint Red Circle Books. in 1957 Lion Books was acquired by New American Library. See the FOB entry for New American Library, which indicates that in 1986 NAL was purchased by Penguin Group USA. See us.penguingroup.com and 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), p. 211-213.	2008
Literary Cavalcade	Literary Cavalcade was the title of a magazine launched by Scholastic, Inc. in 1948. See www.scholastic.com, which states "In 2005, in its 57th year, Literary Cavalcade ceased publication as a print magazine and was incorporated into the www.scholastic.com WriteIt web site".	2008
Liveright Publishing Corporation	The publishing firm of Boni and Liveright was founded in New York in 1917 by Albert Boni and Horace Liveright. In 1918 business differences between the founders led to a split and (on the flip of a coin) sole ownership of the firm passed to Liveright. In 1928 the name of the firm was changed to Horace Liveright, Inc., and in 1933 it became the Liveright Publishing Corporation. The Liveright Publishing Corporation was acquired by W. W. Norton in 1974. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), pp. 57-63 and www.wwnorton.com.	2008
Lockwood & Co.	The publishing firm of Lockwood & Co was established by Mark Lockwood in the early nineteenth century. On his death in the 1850s his son Crosby Lockwood took over the running of the company and changed the name of the firm to Crosby Lockwood & Co. Crosby Lockwood remained an independent firm until it was acquired by Granada Publishing in 1972. See the FOB entry for Granada Publishing, which indicates that any surviving rights will now be owned by the HarperCollins division of News Corporation.	2006
Longman & Broderip	The music publishing firm of J. Longman & Co. was founded in London around 1767. The firm became Longman & Broderip around 1776 and went bankrupt in 1798. See See 'Music printing and publishing' / edited by D. W. Krummel and Stanley Sadie (1990) and the FOB entry for Broderip & Wilkinson.	2007
Lothrop Publishing Company	Lothrop Publishing Company was founded as D. Lothrop and Company in Boston in 1868. In 1904 the firm went bankrupt and was purchased by the publishing firm of Lee and Shepard. See the FOB entry for Lee and Shepard and see 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), pp. 250-252.	2009

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