| LC control no. | no2007128004 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Corporate name heading | United States Book Company |
| See also | Absorbed corporate body: John W. Lovell Company Successor: American Publishers Corporation |
| Beginning date | 1890 |
| Ending date | 1896 |
| Located | New York (N.Y.) Chicago (Ill.) |
| Field of activity | Publishers and publishing |
| Found in | The five hundred dollar check, c1890: t.p. (United States Book Company, New York, successors to James W. Lovell Company, 150 Worth St., Cor. Mission Place) The Lucile Project, WWW site, November 19, 2018: (access point: United States Book Company; New York and Chicago. Organized in 1890 by John W. Lovell as a gigantic book trust. It bought up cheap reprint libraries.... In 1890 the company was incorporated in New Jersey ... Several satellite companies were established to distribute the books. They included: Lovell, Coryell & Company; Wayside Publishing Company; Seaside Publishing Company, the National Book Company; the International Book Company; Empire Publishing Company; the Lovell Brothers & Company; Prudential Book Company; and Lovell, Gestefeld & Company. Within three years the bubble burst, bringing to an end the career of the flamboyant Lovell. The firm was succeeded by the American Publishers Corporation, which maintained a precarious existence until 1904. (Kurian). In 1896, the United States Book Company was reorganized as the American Publisher's Corporation, dropping all imprints but Lovell, Coryell (which was dropped in 1897) and moving to 310-318 Sixth Avenue.... In 1898, the company folded entirely, succeeded by a plate renting business for a few months. While two young employees of the company, Alexander Grosset and George T. Dunlap, fell heir to many of the printing plates, using them to found the great American reprint house that bears their name, it was another American reprinter, A. L. Burt, that ended up with the [James M.] Barrie plates....) <http://sdrc.lib.uiowa.edu/lucile/publishers/usbookco/USBOOKCO.HTM> |
| Not found in | DLB : (publishing firm of John W. Lovell; founded 1882 at 14 Vesey Street, New York, N.Y.; later moved to 142-150 Worth Street; absorbed in 1891 by the United States Book Company) |
| Associated language | eng |
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