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Baker, Pratt and Company	The firm of D. F. Robinson and Company was founded in Hartford, Connecticut in 1828, and is the original predecessor firm of Baker and Taylor. The name of Baker and Taylor was adopted in 1885, and between 1828 and 1885 the firm had many names, including Robinson, Pratt and Company; Pratt, Woodford and Company; Farmer, Brace and Company; Blakeman and Mason; Oakley and Mason; Mason, Baker and Pratt; and Baker, Pratt and Company. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), pp. 34-35 and see the Our History page of www.btol.com.	2009
Balkema	The Dutch publishers Balkema were purchased by the Taylor & Francis Group in 2003. Balkema started publishing around 1941 (their edition of the poems of W. B. Yeats is dated 1939, but this is believed to be a false date). See www.taylorandfrancisgroup.com and www.balkema.nl.	2008
Ballantine Books	Ballantine Books was founded in 1952 by Ian and Betty Ballantine. The firm was purchased by Random House in 1973, and Ballantine Books remains a major Random House / Bertelsmann imprint. See www.randomhouse.com and www.bertelsmann.com.	2008
Bananas	The British magazine Bananas ran for 26 issues from January 1975 until April 1981. Production, financial, and correspondence files under founder Emma Tennant’s tenure are housed at the Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin.	2025
Bantam Books	Bantam Books was founded in 1945 as a mass market paperback publisher. The firm went through various ownership arrangements until Bertelsmann purchased a large share of the company in 1980. Bantam Books is now part of Bantam Dell Publishing, which is part of Random House, which in turn is part of Bertelsmann. See www.randomhouse.com/bantamdell and www.bertelsmann.com.	2008
Barrie & Jenkins	The firm of Barrie & Jenkins was formed in 1964 by the merger of Herbert Jenkins and Barrie & Rockliff. Barrie & Jenkins is now a subsidiary and imprint of Random House UK, which is owned by Bertelsmann. See www.bertelsmann.com and www.randomhouse.co.uk.	2008
Barrie & Rockliff	The firm of Barrie & Rockliff merged with Herbert Jenkins in 1964 to form Barrie & Jenkins. Barrie & Jenkins is now a subsidiary and imprint of Random House UK, which is owned by Bertelsmann. See www.bertelsmann.com and www.randomhouse.co.uk.	2008
Barrie Books	Barrie Books was founded by James Barrie (great-nephew of the author of 'Peter Pan') in 1947. In 1957 Barrie Books purchased Rockliff Books and formed Barrie & Rockliff. See the FOB entry for Barrie & Rockliff.	2008
Barrington Gray	Barrington Gray established his own firm, publishing popular fiction, in Leigh-on-Sea in 1946. According to Steve Holland, debts to printers forced him out of business in 1961. See Steve Holland: 'The mushroom jungle: a history of postwar paperback publishing' (1993), p. 17.	2008
Barse and Hopkins	The publishing firm of Barse and Hopkins was founded in New York in 1909 by William J. Barse and John H. Hopkins. In 1928 Hopkins left the firm to become a literary agent and it continued as Barse and Company. Barse and Company went bankrupt in 1932 and its stock was acquired by Grosset & Dunlap. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), pp. 42-44, and see the FOB entry for Grosset & Dunlap, which indicates that the firm is now part of the US Penguin group (us.penguingroup.com).	2008

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