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H. S. King & Co.	Henry S. King founded the firm of H. S. King & Co. in 1868. His business was purchased by Charles Kegan Paul in 1877. It was then incorporated into Kegan Paul, Trench & Co. from 1878 and Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co. from 1889. In 1912 Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co. merged with George Routledge & Sons to form Routledge & Kegan Paul. The Routledge Group was purchased by the Taylor & Francis Group in 1998. See www.taylorandfrancisgroup.com and www.routledge.com.	2008
Harold Shaw Publishers	Harold Shaw Publishers was founded as a Christian publishing house in Wheaton, Illinois. In 2000 the firm was purchased by Random House, which is owned by Bertelsmann, and Shaw Books is now part of the WaterBrook Multnomah group within Random House. See www.randomhouse.com and www.bertelsmann.com.	2008
Harvill Press	Harvill Press was founded in 1946 by Manya Harari and Marjorie Villiers. The firm was purchased in 1955 by William Collins, but became independent again in 1995 through a management buyout. In 2002 Harvill Press was purchased by the Random House Group. Random House is a "corporate division" of Bertelsmann AG. See www.bertelsmann.com, www.randomhouse.com and www.randomhouse.co.uk. In 2004 Random House merged its imprints Harvill Press and Secker & Warburg to form Harvill Secker.	2008
Henry Schuman, Inc.	Henry Schuman founded his own publishing firm in New York in 1946. In 1953 the firm merged with Abelard Press to form Abelard-Schuman, Inc. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), p. 3, and see the FOB entry for Abelard-Schuman, Inc., which indicates that the firm is now in the ownership of the HarperCollins division of News Corporation.	2008
Herbert S. Stone and Company	Herbert S. Stone founded his own publishing firm in Chicago in 1896 after the dissolution of the partnership of Stone and Kimball (q.v.). In 1905 Herbert S. Stone and Company was sold to Fox, Duffield and Company. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), pp. 436-440, and see the FOB entry for Fox, Duffield and Company.	2009
Herbert Sweet and Company	The publishing firm of Herbert Sweet and Company was founded in Boston in 1845. In 1851 the firm was sold to William H. Spencer, and in 1871 sold to Lee and Shepard (q.v.). After a fire at the Lee and Shepard offices in 1872 the play division was sold to George M. Baker. The firm was renamed George M. Baker and Company. In 1892 it became the Walter H. Baker Company, and continues to trade as Baker's Plays. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), pp. 35-37, and see www.bakersplays.com.	2009
Hodder & Stoughton	Hodder & Stoughton was founded in 1868. In 1993 the firm merged with Headline to form Hodder Headline. Hodder Headline was purchased by Hachette from W. H. Smith in 2004. See www.hodderheadline.co.uk.	2006
Howard Samuel	The publishing firm of Howard Samuel was acquired by Macgibbon and Kee in 1961. See the FOB entry for Macgibbon and Kee, which indicates that ownership will have passed to William Collins, now part of the HarperCollins division of News Corporation. See www.newscorp.com.	2007
Incorporated Society of Authors	Incorporated Society of Authors was an early name of what is now the Society of Authors. See e.g. 'Hardy succeeds Meredith: accepts the presidency of the Incorporated Society of Authors', New York Times, 20 March 1910. See www.societyofauthors.org.	2008
Internationale Situationniste	Although the copyrights of Guy Debord are actively protected, every issue of 'Internationale Situationniste' contained the following 'Avertissement d’anti-copyright': «Tous les textes publiés dans 'Internationale Situationniste' peuvent être librement reproduits, traduits ou adaptés même sans indication d’origine.» It is therefore assumed that all texts of 'Internationale Situationniste' (from 1958 to 1969) are in the public domain.	2006

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