LC control no. | n 89631384 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Corporate name heading | American Book Company |
Variant(s) | ABC |
See also | Component of merger: Van Antwerp, Bragg & Company Absorbing corporate body: D.C. Heath and Company |
Beginning date | 1890 |
Ending date | 1981 |
Associated country | United States |
Field of activity | Publishers and publishing |
Found in | nuc89-55836: King, D.C. Environments, 1979 (heading on NNU rept.: American Book Company; usage: American Book Company) Wikipedia website, viewed May 20, 2020: American Book Company (the American Book Company (ABC) was an educational book publisher in the United States that specialized in elementary school, secondary school and collegiate-level textbooks; it is best known for publishing the McGuffey Readers, which sold 120 million copies between 1836 and 1960; it was formed in 1890 by the consolidation of several companies including Van Antwerp, Bragg and Co.; the company was absorbed into D.C. Heath and Company in 1981 and ceased to exist as an imprint) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Book_Company_(1890)> |
Associated language | eng |