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Gale and Polden	The printing and publishing firm Gale and Polden were based in Aldershot, Hampshire, UK, and specialised in military books. There is a timeline history of the firm from 1866 to 1981 on the website of the Aldershot Military Museum (www3.hants.gov.uk/museum/aldershot-museum/local-history-aldershot/gale-and-polden/gale-and-polden-timeline.htm). In 1981 the firm went out of business as part of the collapse of Maxwell Communications.	2008
Gambit, Inc.	The small publishing firm of Gambit was founded in Boston in 1968 by Lovell Thompson. In 1984 the firm was acquired by Harvard Common Press. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), pp. 156-158; 'Publishers weekly', 27 April 1984; and harvardcommonpress.com.	2008
Garden City Publishing Company	Garden City Publishing Company was founded as a reprint subsidiary of Doubleday. See the FOB entry for Doubleday & Company, which indicates that the firm was purchased by Bertelsmann in 1986, and is now a division of Random House. See www.randomhouse.com/doubleday and www.bertelsmann.com.	2008
Garland Science	Garland Science Publishing was founded in the 1980s. The firm was purchased by the Taylor & Francis Group in 1996. See www.garlandscience.com and www.taylorandfrancisgroup.com.	2008
GEE Publishing	Alfred William Gee began as a publisher in 1874, publishing 'The Accountant'. In 1980 the firm of GEE Publishing was acquired by the Thomson Corporation. GEE now forms part of Thomson Legal & Regulatory alongside Sweet & Maxwell. See www.sweetandmaxwell.co.uk and www.thomson.com	2007
General Hall	General Hall was founded as an academic publishing firm, with a specialism in sociology. In 2000 the firm was acquired by the Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group. See www.rowmanlittlefield.com.	2008
Genesis West	A total of seven issues and a poetry supplement of this short-lived literary magazine was published in Burlingame, California by the Chrysalis West Foundation between 1962 and 1965 under the editorship of Gordon Lish. A collection of correspondence and manuscripts sent to the magazine is housed at the Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin.	2025
Genesis:Grasp	Genesis: Grasp was founded in New York City by Richard Meyers, better-known as the punk rock musician Richard Hell, in 1968. A total of five issues of the magazine were published between 1968 and 1971. Several book titles also appeared under the Genesis:Grasp Press imprint. A collection of Genesis:Grasp press production materials, correspondence, and manuscripts is housed at the Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin.	2025
Geographia	Geographia was a London-based map company founded by Alexander Gross in the early 1900s. In 1985 Geographia was sold by Century Hutchinson to Bartholomew, which had recently become a part of News International (now News Corporation). See the FOB entry for Bartholomew, and see www.newscorp.com and www.bartholomewmaps.com.	2008
George Allen & Unwin	The firm of George Allen & Sons was founded in 1871. In 1914, when there were financial difficulties, an interest was acquired by Stanley Unwin and the firm became known as George Allen & Unwin. George Allen & Unwin merged with Bell & Hyman in 1986, to form Unwin Hyman. Unwin Hyman was purchased by HarperCollins in 1990. Although HarperCollins subsequently sold the Unwin Hyman academic division to Routledge, the UK rights of George Allen & Unwin remain in the ownership of HarperCollins, which in turn is owned by News Corporation. See www.newscorp.com. Allen & Unwin still trades as an independent publisher in Australia and New Zealand.	2007

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