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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
Little Blue Books	Little Blue Books were published by the Haldeman-Julius Company from 1923 onwards. 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.	2008
Littlehampton Book Services	Littlehampton Book Services, principally a warehousing and distribution firm, was purchased by the Orion Publishing Group in 1993. The Orion Publishing Group was bought by Hachette in 1998, but continues to trade under its own name. See www.hachette.com and www.orionbooks.co.uk.	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
Longmans, Browne and Nolan	The Irish publishing firm of Browne and Nolan was renamed Longmans, Browne and Nolan around 1969. Longmans, Browne and Nolan was incorporated into the Educational Company of Ireland (EDCO) around 1972. EDCO became a Jefferson Smurfit company and is now part of the Smurfit Kappa Group. See www.edco.ie and www.smurfitkappa.com.	2007
Loring and Mussey	The publishing firm of Loring and Mussey was founded by Percy A. Loring and J. Barrows Mussey in New York in 1933. In 1936 Loring withdrew from the firm and it continued for a year as J. Barrows Mussey before going out of business in 1937. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), p. 213.	2008
Lucas Bookselling Services	Lucas Bookselling Services was purchased by Collet's Holdings Ltd in 1989. See the FOB entry for Collet's Holdings Ltd, which indicates that the firm collapsed and went out of business in 1993.	2008
Lucent Books	Lucent Books was founded in 1987 as a sister company to Greenhaven Press. The firm was purchased in 2000 (with Greenhaven Press) by the Thomson Gale division of the Thomson Corporation. See www.gale.com.	2006
Lydia R. Bailey	The Bailey family printing and publishing firm was founded in Lancaster, Pennsylvania in 1772 and moved to Philadelphia in 1778. The firm was first named Francis Bailey, and became F. and R. Bailey in 1797. From 1808 the firm traded as Lydia R. Bailey. It went out of business in 1861. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 33.	2009
Madison Book Company	The Madison Book Company was founded in Chicago in 1902 by Frank K. Reilly and Sumner C. Britton. In 1904 the firm's name was changed to Reilly and Britton Publishing Company. Britton left the firm in 1916, and from 1919 William F. Lee became a full partner and the firm became Reilly and Lee Publishing Company. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), pp. 315-316, and see the FOB entry for Reilly and Lee, which indicates that the successor firms now belong to McGraw-Hill (www.mcgraw-hill.com).	2008

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