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A. S. Barnes & Co.	The publishing firm of A. S. Barnes & Co. was founded in Hartford, Connecticut in 1838 by Alfred S. Barnes. Barnes had various partners in the early years and the firm briefly used names including Alfred S. Barnes and Charles Davies and A. S. Barnes & Burr, before reverting to A. S. Barnes & Co. In 1958 A. S. Barnes & Co. merged with Thomas Yoseloff, Inc. "Yoseloff and his son Julien remained in control of the firm until 1978, when it was acquired by Leisure Dynamics, Incorporated of San Diego, California" (quoted from 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), p. 390). See also the obituary of Thomas Yoseloff by his daughter Tamar Yoseloff, 'The Guardian', 13 February 2008. Soon after the acquisition of the firm by Leisure Dynamics, the names of Thomas Yoseloff and A. S. Barnes disappeared as imprints.	2009
A. W. Shaw Company	A. W. Shaw Company was an early acquisition of the McGraw-Hill Book Company in 1928. See www.mcgraw-hill.com.	2008
Abelard-Schuman Ltd	The records of Abelard-Schuman Ltd of London are held by Glasgow University Library. See www.gla.ac.uk/archives, which states that Abelard Schuman Ltd was founded in 1971 as a publishing subsidiary of Blackie & Son Ltd (see also the complex FOB entry for Blackie), and that by 2002 the firm was dormant. For the original US company of the same name, see the FOB entry for Abelard-Schuman, Inc.	2008
Abelard-Schuman, Inc.	Abelard-Schuman, Inc. was founded in New York in 1953 by the merger of Abelard Press and Henry Schuman, Inc. (q.v.). See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), p. 3. The firm was acquired by the International Textbook Company (later Intext) in 1969. In 1974 Intext was purchased by Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., which in turn was purchased by Harper & Row (now HarperCollins) in 1978. HarperCollins is a division of News Corporation. See www.newscorp.com.	2008
AGS Publishing	The firm of AGS Publishing was purchased by Pearson Education from WRC Media in June 2005. See www.pearsoned.com.	2008
Alicat Book Shop Press	From 1945 to 1950, Oscar (neé Baradinsky) and Florenz Baron published over 20 titles from their Alicat Book Shop Press in Yonkers, New York. Eighteen of these comprised the “Outcast” Series of limited-edition chapbooks which were printed in runs of between 500 and 1000 copies. The list included poetry, short fiction, and critical forays into painting, film making, music, literature, and philosophy.	2025
Allman & Son (Publishers) Ltd	The Allman educational list was purchased by John Boon of Mills & Boon in 1961. Mills & Boon was purchased by Harlequin in 1971 (see www.millsandboon.co.uk). The educational and non-fiction general list of Harlequin Mills & Boon was purchased by Bell & Hyman in 1980. See the FOB entry for Bell & Hyman, which indicates that any surviving rights will belong to HarperCollins, part of News Corporation. See www.newscorp.com.	2007
American News Company	The American News Company was founded in 1864 in New York. In 1969 the firm was renamed Ancorp National Services. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), pp. 10-11. From the 1970s the firm concentrated on its food-service and newstand operations and had little to do with the book trade. In 1979 Ancorp was acquired by the French food-service company Sodexho. See 'The changing world of publishing: a special issue of the Journal of Media Economics' (2003), p. 105n.	2013
American Stationers' Company	American Stationers' Company was a publishing house in Boston in the late 1830s. The firm began publishing around 1836 and went out of business around 1838. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 13.	2009
Armed Services Editions	In 1943 the Council on Books in Wartime established Armed Services Editions to publish books for US armed forces personnel. From 1944 the name Editions for the Armed Services was more commonly used. The operation was closed down in 1947. See John Y. Cole (editor): 'Books in action: the Armed Services Editions' (1984).	2008

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