American Book Company (1890)

History

American Book Company was formed in 1890 by the consolidation of Van Antwerp, Bragg and Co., A.S. Barnes & Co., D. Appleton and Co., and Ivison, Blakeman and Co. It was acquired by Litton Industries in 1967 and existed as a division of Litton Educational Publishing, Inc. until being sold to the International Thomson Organization in 1981. Thomson then sold its American Book Company K-12 assets to D. C. Heath and Company in 1981. The company was absorbed into D. C. Heath and ceased to exist as an imprint. Any remaining K-12 assets of the American Book Company are now owned by Houghton Mifflin (now Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), which acquired D. C. Heath and Company in 1995.

Many of the college level textbook rights of ABC/Litton were sold by International Thomson as well, to Van Nostrand Reinhold, though some remained under the Wadsworth imprint at Thomson, which is now Cengage Learning.

''American Writers Series''

Beginning in 1934 and continuing into the 1940s, the American Book Company published a 23-volume American Writers Series with Harry H. Clark as the general editor. Each volume had one or two editors and consisted of "representative selections, with introduction, bibliography, and notes".

The volume on Benjamin Franklin drew a warm tribute from Carl Van Doren to Frank Luther Mott.

References

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References

1. "McGuffey Readers World". The Paradigm Company.
2. "American Book Company Records". [[Syracuse University]] Library.
3. Betsky, Seymour. (September 1983). "American Literature in the Marketplace. Literature and Cultural Inquiry.". [[Blackwell Publishing]].
4. Kleinfield, N. r. (1981-01-29). "Litton Plans Publishing Group Sale". The New York Times.
5. (January 1953). "Great Traditions in Ethics".
6. "Great Traditions in Ethics". Cengage Learning.
7. Stewart, Randall. (1 January 1934). "''Emerson, Hawthorne, Longfellow, and Whitman'', Edited by Harry H. Clark (Book Review)". New England Quarterly.
8. (1938). "Reviewed works: ''Benjamin Franklin: Representative Selections, with Introduction, Bibliography, and Notes'' by Frank Luther Mott and Chester E. Jorgenson; ''Benjamin Franklin, Englishman and American'' by Verner Winslow Crane". Modern Philology.
9. Holt, W. Stull. (1941). "Reviewed works: ''John Lothrop Motley: Representative Selections, with Introduction, Bibliography, and Notes'' edited by Chester Penn Higby, Professor of History, University of Wisconsin, and B. T. Schantz, Instructor in English, Colgate University; ''Francis Parkman: Representative Selections, with Introduction, Bibliography, and Notes'' by Wilbur L. Schramm, Assistant Professor of English, University of Iowa". The American Historical Review.
10. (1939). "HERMAN MELVILLE, by Willard Thorpe (Book Review)".
11. (1935). "WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT, Edited by Tremaine McDowell (Book Review)".
12. (1944). "THOMAS PAINE, Edited by Harry Hayden Clark".
13. (1935). "MARK TWAIN, Edited by Fred Lewis Pattee (Book Review)".
14. Letter quoted on the Frank Luther Mott page