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John Kenedy and Son	John Kenedy founded his publishing firm in Baltimore in 1826. In 1838 the business moved to New York. John Kenedy died in 1866. The firm was then run by his son Patrick John Kenedy, first as P. J. Kenedy (1866-1904) and then as P. J. Kenedy and Sons. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), pp. 237-239, and see the FOB entry for P. J. Kenedy and Sons.	2009
Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith	The firm of Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith was established in New York in 1929, largely but not entirely as a US publisher of Jonathan Cape's British titles. Harrison Smith left the firm in 1931, and it went out of business in 1932. "Its assets were put into receivership and were liquidated within a year." See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), pp. 75-77.	2008
K. G. Saur	The firm of K. G. Saur was founded in 1949, with a head office in Munich. K. G. Saur was purchased by Butterworths in 1987 and became part of the Reed Elsevier Group. The firm was sold by Reed Elsevier to Thomson Gale in 2000, and then sold by Thomson Gale to Walter de Gruyter in 2006. See www.degruyter.de.	2008
Lee and Shepard	The publishing firm of Lee and Shepard was founded in Boston in 1862 by William Lee and Charles A. B. Shepard. In 1904 the firm purchased the bankrupt Lothrop Publishing and became Lothrop, Lee and Shepard. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), pp. 250-252, and see the FOB entry for Lothrop, Lee and Shepard, which indicates that the firm is now owned by the HarperCollins division of News Corporation.	2009
Leonard Smithers	Leonard Smithers began publishing around 1890. Partly because of his generosity towards his authors (including Oscar Wilde and Aubrey Beardsley), Smithers was declared bankrupt in 1900. Legally his firm went out of existence at that time, although Smithers continued to issue pirated works until his death in 1907.	2006
Lion Books, Inc.	Lion Books was a small publishing house founded by Martin Goodman in New York in 1949. The firm was briefly first known as Select Publications. Both Select Publications and Lion Books used the imprint Red Circle Books. in 1957 Lion Books was acquired by New American Library. See the FOB entry for New American Library, which indicates that in 1986 NAL was purchased by Penguin Group USA. See us.penguingroup.com and 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), p. 211-213.	2008
Littlehampton Book Services	Littlehampton Book Services, principally a warehousing and distribution firm, was purchased by the Orion Publishing Group in 1993. The Orion Publishing Group was bought by Hachette in 1998, but continues to trade under its own name. See www.hachette.com and www.orionbooks.co.uk.	2006
Long and Smith	Long and Smith was a New York publishing house which went bankrupt around 1934. In 1935 many of its titles were acquired at the bankruptcy sale by Julian Messner. See the FOB entry for Julian Messner, Inc., which indicates that the firm was acquired by Simon & Schuster in the 1960s. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), pp. 235-237 and www.simonsays.com.	2008
Longstreet Press	Longstreet Press was founded by Chuck Perry in 1988, and purchased by Scott Bard in 1999. In 2006 the firm filed for bankruptcy. See 'Publishers weekly', 18 September 2006.	2008
Lothrop, Lee and Shepard	In 1904 the publishing firm of Lee and Shepard (q.v.) purchased the bankrupt Lothrop Publishing Company and became Lothrop, Lee and Shepard. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), pp. 250-252. Lothrop, Lee and Shepard was purchased by Crown Publishers in 1943 and then by William Morrow & Company in 1968. See the FOB entry for William Morrow & Company, which indicates that the firm was acquired by the Hearst Corporation in 1981 and then in 1999 sold by Hearst to News Corporation, where it was incorporated into HarperCollins. See www.newscorp.com and www.harpercollins.com.	2009

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