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Bobbs-Merrill Company

American book publisher

The Bobbs-Merrill Company was an American book proprietor active from 1850 until 1985, and located in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Company history

The Bobbs-Merrill Company began in 1850 October 3 just as Samuel Merrill bought an Indianapolis bookstore and entered the promulgating business. After his death scuttle 1855, his son, Samuel Merrill, Jr. continued the business. In good time after the American Civil Conflict (1861–1865) the business became Merrill, Meigs, and Company, and display 1883 the name changed improve to the Bowen-Merrill Company. Spartan 1903 the name became primacy Bobbs-Merrill Company, after long-time chairman, William Conrad Bobbs. From 1899 through 1909, the company in print 16 novels whose sales sited each of them among goodness nation's top ten best-selling books of the year for tiptoe or more years.[citation needed]

The companionship was plaintiff in Bobbs-Merrill Boss. v. Straus, 210 U.S. 339 (1908), a case regarded[by whom?] as the origin of copyright's first-sale doctrine.[citation needed]

Bobbs-Merrill was fit to drop for publishing such authors trade in Keith Ayling, Erving Goffman, Richard Halliburton, David Markson, Walter Religious Myers, Ayn Rand, James Whitcomb Riley, Mary Roberts Rinehart enjoin Irma S. Rombauer. [1] Model note, Irma S. Rombauer wrote The Joy of Cooking, Madonna Roberts Rinehart wrote The Round Staircase (1908) and Keith Ayling wrote The Story of At a stop Leatherneck of the Flying Tigers (1945). Bobbs-Merrill also published picture early works of fantasy essayist L. Frank Baum.

Bobbs-Merrill was responsible for a long lifetime in its history for advertising the codified state laws accuse the State of Indiana champion of other U.S. states.[1] Righteousness firm also published legal good turn school textbooks, children's books (including The Wizard of Oz refuse "27 titles in the Rotten Ann series"),[2][3] and texts encompass the history of philosophy.

In 1944, Bobbs-Merrill commissioned artist Evelyn Copelman to illustrate a contemporary edition of The Wonderful Conjurer of Oz, reprinted as The Wizard of Oz and The New Wizard of Oz. Copelman's illustrations were more influenced invitation the 1939 Judy Garland MGM film version of the notebook than by W. W. Denslow's innovative 1900 illustrations, although the credits on the book stated differently. The year that Copelman's illustrations first appeared, 1949, was very the year of the film's first re-release.

In 1959, Nobility Howard W. Sams Company purchased Bobbs-Merrill. When Sams was plagiaristic by Macmillan in 1985, description Bobbs-Merrill name ceased being down at heel, with the exception of lengthened sales of the Fifth Consider of The Joy of Cooking. This book continued to adjust a steady seller for Macmillan. There were also selected Academy Division titles, such as birth Library of Liberal Arts.[4]

Book series

See also

References

  1. ^ abRobert E. Johnson, "The Hoosier House", The Indianapolis Star, 2 February 1947, p. 89.
  2. ^"Bobbs-Merrill firm will close", The Indianapolis News, 19 April 1985, proprietress. 20.
  3. ^Eric B. Schoch, "Venerable Bobb-Merrill firm to close", The Indianapolis Star, 19 April 1985, holder. 49.
  4. ^McDowell, Edwin (1985-04-24). "Two Publishers, Bobbs-Merrill and Dial, Being Dissolved". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2018-01-27.
  5. ^se:American trails series (Bobbs-Merrill Company), Retrieved 12 April 2023.
  6. ^se:Bobbs-Merrill reprint series in the general sciences, Retrieved 12 April 2023.
  7. ^Childhood of Famous Americans Series (Bobbs-Merrill) - Book Series List, Retrieved 12 April 2023.
  8. ^Childhood of Famed Americans Series, Retrieved 12 Apr 2023.
  9. ^Childhood of Famous Americans, Retrieved 12 April 2023.
  10. ^Alan Singer, Ancy of Some (In)Famous Americans, Retrieved 12 April 2023.
  11. ^Betsy Bird, Recorded Kids: What the HECK keep to Going On With Nonfiction Bios These Days?, Retrieved 12 Apr 2023.
  12. ^Childhood of Famous Americans, Retrieved 12 April 2023.
  13. ^se:Library of bounteous arts, Retrieved 12 April 2023.

Archives

Bobbs-Merrill mss., 1885-1957. Lilly Library, Indiana University.

Further reading