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Robert M. McBride and Company	Robert M. McBride and Company was a publishing firm founded in New York in 1915 by Robert Medill McBride. Its predecessor firms were called McBride, Winston and Company and McBride, Nast and Company (q.v). In 1948 the firm was in financial difficulties and sold sixty of its titles to Dodd, Mead (q.v.). In 1949 the remainder of the firm was sold to Outlet Book Company. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), pp. 224-227, and see the FOB entry for Outlet Book Company, which indicates the firm is today a division of Random House, Inc. (www.randomhouse.com), known as Random House Value Publishing.	2008
Robert Ross & Co. Ltd	Robert Ross & Co. Ltd was founded in the 1930s as a nautical publishing company. In 1952, the firm changed its name to Adlard Coles Ltd, and since 1990 it has been known as Adlard Coles Nautical. See the FOB entry for Adlard Coles Nautical and www.acblack.com.	2007
Robert Snow Means Co. Inc.	The Massachusetts publishing firm of Robert Snow Means Co. Inc. was purchased by McCorquodale in 1985. See the FOB entry for McCorquodale.	2008
Row, Peterson & Co.	The Illinois publishing firm of Row, Peterson & Co. merged with Harper & Brothers in 1962 to form Harper & Row. Harper & Row was acquired by News Corporation and merged with William Collins in the early 1990s to form HarperCollins. See www.newscorp.com. In 2001 HarperCollins Publishers was reorganised into two divisions: General Books and Collins.	2009
Rudd and Carleton	The publishing firm of Rudd and Carleton was founded in New York in 1857 as the successor firm to Livermore and Rudd. In 1857 Edward Livermore retired from the firm and its owners became Edward P. Rudd, his father George Rudd and George Washington Carleton. In 1861 both the Rudds retired, and the firm continued as G. W. Carleton. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 398, and see the FOB entry for G. W. Carleton.	2009
S. Colman	Samuel Colman founded his bookselling and publishing firm in Portland, Maine around 1830 and moved the firm to New York in the early 1830s. The firm went out of business in 1846. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 100.	2009
S. W. Partridge and Co.	The printing and publishing firm of S. W. Partridge and Co. was founded in 1850. According to 'The Writers' and Artists' Year Book 1939', in 1930 the firm was purchased by A. & C. Black. S. W. Partridge and Co. continued publishing until World War II, but appears to have been discontinued during the war. See the FOB entry for A. & C. Black.	2010
S. W. Tilton and Company	Stephen Willis Tilton founded the publishing firm of S. W. Tilton and Company in the 1870s, after the closure in 1874 of J. E. Tilton and Company (q.v.). Publications of S. W. Tilton and Company have been traced for the 1870s and 1880s but not later. According to the website www.tilton.org, Stephen Willis Tilton was born in 1833 and died in 1911.	2021
Saalfield Publishing Company	The Saalfield Publishing Company was founded in Akron, Ohio in 1900 by Arthur J. Saalfield, who had taken over the publishing assets of the Werner Company. The firm developed a specialism in books in the names of motion picture stars, including Shirley Temple, Marilyn Monroe and Woody Woodpecker. The firm ceased operations and went out of existence in 1977. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), p. 324.	2009
Saunders, Otley & Co.	Saunders, Otley & Co. began publishing in the 1820s. The firm eventually became one of the component or subsidiary firms of Chatto & Windus. See the FOB entry for Chatto & Windus Ltd.	2008

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