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Gulliver Books	Gulliver Books was established as a children's publishing imprint of the Harcourt, Brace & Company. See the FOB entry for Harcourt, Brace & Company, which was owned by Reed Elsevier from 1998 to 2007. The Gulliver Books imprint was discontinued by Harcourt Children's Books from 2005, but, from 2008, following the acquisition of Harcourt by Houghton Mifflin, the name of Gulliver has reappeared on Harcourt websites. See e.g. www.harcourtbooks.com.	2008
H. B. Pearson	H. B. Pearson founded his publishing firm in Cincinnati around 1850. The firm went out of existence around 1855. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 356.	2009
H. C. Peck and Theo. Bliss	The publishing firm of H. C. Peck and Theo. Bliss was founded in Philadelphia in 1850 by Horace C. Peck and Theodore Bliss. The firm got into financial difficulties during the Civil War and the partnership was dissolved in 1862. After the war Peck and Bliss briefly formed their own separate firms, which have entries in FOB. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 356.	2009
Hanley & Belfus	Hanley & Belfus is a Philadelphia-based medical publisher. In 2002 the firm was purchased by Elsevier Science, a division of Reed Elsevier, from the Holtzbrinck Group. See www.elsevierhealth.com.	2008
Harcourt, Brace & Company	Harcourt, Brace & Company was founded by Alfred Harcourt and Donald Brace in 1919. In the 1950s the firm became known as Harcourt, Brace & World and then Harcourt Brace Jovanovich (HBJ); later it reverted to Harcourt Brace. In 1998 Harcourt Brace & Company was acquired by Reed Elsevier, and in December 2007 Reed Elsevier sold Harcourt Education, Harcourt Trade and Greenwood-Heinemann to Houghton Mifflin. From 2008 the imprint Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is in use. See www.harcourt.com and www.hmhco.com. Also from 2008, Harcourt Assessment was sold to Pearson. See www.harcourtassessment.com and pearsonassess.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
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
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.	2008
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
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

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