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Angus and Robertson Bookstore	The Australian firm of Angus and Robertson was founded in 1886. The firm was principally a bookselling company, but began publishing from 1887. From the 1970s the bookselling and publishing companies became completely separate. The bookselling arm was acquired by Ipec Insurance and then passed through several ownerships before it was sold by W. H. Smith to Pacific Equity Partners in 2004. It is now part of Pacific Equity's A&R Whitcoulls Group. See www.pep.com.au.	2009
Angus and Robertson Ltd	The Australian publishing firm of Angus and Robertson was founded in 1886. The firm was principally a bookselling company, but began publishing from 1887. From the 1970s the bookselling and publishing companies became completely separate (see the FOB entry for Angus and Robertson Bookstore). The publishing arm of Angus and Robertson became part of HarperCollins from 1989. See www.angusrobertson.com.au and www.newscorp.com.	2009
Anker Publishing	Anker Publishing was established as a specialist publisher for higher education practice. In 2007 the firm was acquired by Wiley and incorporated into its Jossey-Bass division. See www.josseybass.com and www.wiley.com.	2008
Ann Arbor Press	Ann Arbor Press was acquired by Wiley from Sleeping Bear Press in 2002. see www.wiley.com.	2008
Ansata	The German publishing firm of Ansata is now part of Verlagsgruppe Random House GmbH. Random House is owned by Bertelsmann. See www.randomhouse.de/ansataintegrallotos and www.bertelsmann.com.	2008
Anson D. F. Randolph and Company	Anson D. F. Randolph founded his own publishing firm in New York in 1851. Randolph went bankrupt and died in 1898, and the firm's creditors dissolved it the following year. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), pp. 382-384.	2009
Anthony Blond Ltd	Anthony Blond Ltd was founded in 1957. See Anthony Blond's own account in his book 'Jew made in England'. His publishing firm went through many changes and mergers, being known as Blond & Briggs Ltd and also Holt-Blond in the 1970s, and Muller, Blond & White Ltd in the 1980s. Muller, Blond & White Ltd was purchased by Century Hutchinson in 1987, and is now part of Random House UK, which is owned by Bertelsmann. See www.bertelsmann.com and www.randomhouse.co.uk. (There is further information in Anthony Blond's obituary, The Times, 1 March 2008.)	2008
Anvil Press	Founded in 1968 by Peter Jay and John Aczel in Oxford, Anvil Press began as an extension of the poetry magazine New Measure which ran for 10 issues from 1965-1969. A collection of editorial and production files is housed at the Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin.	2025
Appeal Publishing Company	Appeal Publishing Company was founded in 1919 by Emmanuel Haldeman-Julius and Louis Kopelin. In 1922 the firm became known as the Haldeman-Julius Company. See the FOB entry for Haldeman-Julius Company, which indicates that in 1964 the firm was prosecuted for selling books on sex education, and went out of business. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), pp. 176-178.	2009
Appleton & Lange, Inc.	The medical publishing firm of Appleton & Lange, Inc. was purchased by McGraw-Hill from Pearson plc in 1999. See www.mcgraw-hill.com.	2009

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