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McBride, Nast and Company	Robert Medill McBride founded his first publishing company in New York in 1910 and named it McBride, Winston and Company. In 1911 Condé Nast acquired the principal financial interest in the firm and it was renamed McBride, Nast and Company. Nast left the firm in 1915 and it was then renamed Robert M. McBride and Company. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), p. 224, and see the FOB entry for Robert M. McBride and Company, which indicates that the firm was purchased by Outlet Book Company in 1949 and that Outlet is now part of Random House (www.randomhouse.com).	2008
Modern Library	The Modern Library was founded as an imprint of Boni and Liveright (q.v.) in New York in 1917. Its original name was The Modern Library of the World's Best Books. In 1925 the Modern Library was purchased from Boni and Liveright by Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer. In 1927 Cerf and Klopfer changed the name of the firm to Random House. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), pp. 242-245; the FOB entry for Random House; and www.randomhouse.com.	2008
Muller, Blond & White Ltd	The firm of Muller, Blond & White Ltd was formed in the 1980s by the merger of Blond & Briggs Ltd and Frederick Muller Ltd. See the FOB entries for these two firms, which are now part of Random House UK, which is owned by Bertelsmann. See www.bertelsmann.com and www.randomhouse.co.uk.	2008
Neale Publishing Company	The Neale Company was founded in Washington, D.C. in 1894 by Walter Neale. In 1901 it became the Neale Publishing Company. Walter Neale died in 1933 and the firm went out of existence. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), pp. 332-334.	2009
New Win Publishing	See the FOB entry for New Century Publishing, which was formerly a part of Appleton-Century-Crofts. New Century Publishing was purchased in 1990 by Frank Gil, who changed its name to New Win Publishing. New Win Publishing was purchased by the Academic Learning Company in 2003. See www.academiclearningcompany.com.	2008
Peck, White and Peck	Horace C. Peck was a partner in the publishing firm of H. C. Peck and Theo. Bliss (q.v.) until it was dissolved in 1862 because of Civil War financial difficulties. After the war Peck went into partnership with his son Lorenzo and William White as Peck, White and Peck until the firm went out of business in 1867. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 356.	2009
Penn Publishing Company	The Penn Publishing Company was founded in Philadelphia in 1889 by Charles C. Shoemaker. The firm went bankrupt in 1941 and its assets were acquired by the Harlem Book Company, which restarted the firm as William Penn Publishing Corporation. This new company failed in 1943, however, and its assets were acquired by Alfred A. Knopf. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 357 and see the FOB entry for Alfred A. Knopf Inc.	2009
Philip Wellby	The firm of Philip Wellby was a publisher of occult books. In 1908 the firm was taken over by the newly formed William Rider & Co. William Rider & Co. was acquired by Random House UK, which is owned by Bertelsmann, and Rider is now a Random House imprint. See www.bertelsmann.com and www.randomhouse.co.uk.	2008
Pratt, Woodford and Company	The firm of D. F. Robinson and Company was founded in Hartford, Connecticut in 1828, and is the original predecessor firm of Baker and Taylor. The name of Baker and Taylor was adopted in 1885, and between 1828 and 1885 the firm had many names, including Robinson, Pratt and Company; Pratt, Woodford and Company; Farmer, Brace and Company; Blakeman and Mason; Oakley and Mason; Mason, Baker and Pratt; and Baker, Pratt and Company. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), pp. 34-35 and see the Our History page of www.btol.com.	2009
Red Wagon Books	Red Wagon Books was established as a children's imprint of Harcourt, Brace & Company. See the FOB entry for Harcourt, Brace. From 2007 Red Wagon Books is an imprint of Harcourt Children's Books, within Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. See www.hmhco.com and www.harcourtbooks.com.	2008

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