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Joseph Nancrede	The bookselling and publishing firm of Hall and Nancrede was founded in Boston in 1795 by Thomas Hall and Joseph Nancrede. By 1796 the firm was known as Joseph Nancrede. Joseph Nancrede went out of existence in 1804. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 332.	2013
Jossey-Bass	The San Francisco-based publisher Jossey-Bass was founded in 1967. The firm passed through several ownerships, including Simon & Schuster and Pearson, before being purchased by Wiley from Pearson in 1999. Jossey-Bass is now a division of Wiley. See www.josseybass.com.	2008
Jove Books	The predecessor firm of Jove Books was Pyramid Books, which was founded by Alfred R. Plaine and Matthew Huttner in 1949. In 1975 Pyramid Books was acquired by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich and its name changed to Jove Books. In 1979 Jove Books was purchased from Harcourt Brace Jovanovich by the Putnam Berkley Group. See the FOB entry for the Putnam Berkley Group, which indicates that the firm was acquired by Penguin in 1997, and is now part of the Pearson Group. See us.penguingroup.com.	2008
Julian Messner, Inc.	The publishing house of Julian Messner, Inc. was founded in New York in 1933. Julian Messner died in 1948, and his widow Kathryn Grossman Messner died in 1964. In 1964-66 the firm was acquired first by Pocket Books and then by Simon & Schuster. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), pp. 235-237 and www.simonsays.com.	2008
June Hall Literary Agency Ltd	The June Hall Literary Agency was acquired by the newly-formed Peters Fraser & Dunlop agency (PFD) in 1988. See www.pfd.co.uk.	2008
List Verlag	List Verlag was founded in Berlin by J. A. List around 1814. The firm was controlled by the List family until World War II. It was subsequently acquired by the Axel Springer group, being part of Econ Ullstein List and then from 2000 to 2003 of Ullstein Heyne List. Ullstein Heyne List was broken up in 2003 and List was sold to Bonnier AB of Stockholm. It is now an imprint of Ullstein Buchverlage. See www.bonnier.com and www.ullsteinbuchverlage.de.	2008
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
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
M. J. Ivers and Company	The publishing firm of M. J. Ivers and Company was founded in New York around 1882. In 1898 it acquired the assets of the firm of Beadle and Adams, including the Dime Library. The firm went out of business around 1905 and its assets were acquired by the Arthur Westbrook Company of Cincinnati. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 221.	2009
Michael Joseph Ltd	Michael Joseph founded his own publishing company in 1935. The firm of Michael Joseph Ltd was bought by Penguin UK in March 1985. Penguin UK is part of Pearson plc. See www.pearson.com.	2008

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