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mulholland books bulfinch press official website www.littlebrown.com little brown and company is an american publisher founded in 1837 by charles coffin little and his partner james brown and for close to two centuries has published fiction and nonfiction by american authors . early lists featured little women by louisa may alcott emily dickinson s poetry and bartlett s familiar quotations . as of 2016 little brown & company is a division of the hachette book group . 1 contents 1 19th century 2 20th century 3 21st century 4 see also 5 notes and references 5.1 bibliography 6 external links 19th century edit little brown and company had its roots in the book selling trade . it was founded in 1837 in boston by charles little and james brown . 2 3 they formed the partnership for the purpose of publishing importing and selling books . 2 it can trace its roots before that to 1784 to a bookshop owned by ebenezer batelle on marlborough street . 2 they published works of benjamin franklin and george washington and they were specialized in legal publishing and importing titles . 4 for many years it was the most extensive law publisher in the united states and also the largest importer of standard english law and miscellaneous works introducing american buyers to the encyclop dia britannica 4 the dictionaries of william smith and many other standard works . 5 in the early years little and brown published the works of daniel webster george bancroft s history of the united states 4 william h. prescott s ferdinand and isabella jones very s first book of poetry edited by ralph waldo emerson letters of john adams and works by james russell lowell and francis parkman . little brown and company was the american publisher for edward gibbon s the decline and fall of the roman empire . 2 4 the firm was the original publisher of united states statutes at large beginning in 1845 under authority granted by a joint resolution of congress . in 1874 congress transferred the authority to publish the statutes at large to the government printing office which has been responsible for producing the set since that time . 6 1 u.s.c. 113 still recognizes their edition of the laws and treaties of the united states are competent evidence of the several public and private acts of congress treaties and international agreements other than treaties of the united states . in 1853 little brown began publishing the works of british poets from chaucer to wordsworth . ninety six volumes were published in the series in five years . in 1859 john bartlett became a partner in the firm . he held the rights to his familiar quotations and little brown published the 15th edition of the work in 1980 125 years after its first publication . john murray brown james brown s son took over when augustus flagg retired in 1884 . in the 1890s little brown expanded into general publishing including fiction . in 1896 it published quo vadis . in 1898 little brown purchased a list of titles from the roberts brothers firm . 19th century employees included charles carroll soule . 7 20th century edit a little brown and co. insignia used in 1906 . john murray brown died in 1908 and james w. mcintyre became managing partner . when mcintyre died in 1913 little brown incorporated . in 1925 little brown entered into an agreement to publish all atlantic monthly books . this arrangement lasted until 1985 . during this time the joint atlantic monthly press little brown imprint published all quiet on the western front herge s the adventures of tintin james truslow adams s the adams family charles nordhoff and james norman hall s mutiny on the bounty and its sequels james hilton s goodbye mr. chips walter d. edmonds s drums along the mohawk william least heat moon s blue highways tracy kidder s the soul of a new machine and j. d. salinger s the catcher in the rye . salinger later terminated his contract with the publishing house sometime in the 1970s though his novel was still published by little brown . other prominent figures published by little brown in the 20th and early 21st centuries have included nagaru tanigawa donald barthelme louisa m. alcott catherine drinker bowen bernie brillstein thornton burgess hortense calisher bruce catton a. j. cronin peter de vries j. frank dobie c. s. forester john fowles malcolm gladwell pete hamill cynthia harrod eagles lillian hellman oliver wendell holmes sr. henry kissinger elizabeth kostova norman mailer william manchester nelson mandela john p. marquand masters and johnson stephenie meyer rick moody ogden nash edwin o connor erich maria remarque alice sebold david sedaris george stephanopoulos gwyn thomas gore vidal david foster wallace evelyn waugh p. g. wodehouse james patterson and herman wouk . little brown also published the photography of ansel adams . in 1996 little brown s legal and medical publishing division was purchased by wolters kluwer . in 2001 michael pietsch became publisher of little brown . the imprint was purchased by time inc. in 1968 and was made part of the time warner book group when time merged with warner communications to form time warner in 1989 . little brown expanded into the uk in 1992 when twbg bought macdonald & co from maxwell communications taking on its abacus upmarket paperback and orbit science fiction lists and authors including iain banks . feminist publisher virago press followed in 1996 . also in 1996 wolters kluwer acquired little brown s professional division and incorporated it into its aspen and lippincott raven imprints . 21st century edit in 2006 the time warner book group was sold to french publisher hachette livre . following this the little brown imprint is used by hachette livre s u.s. publishing company hachette book group usa . in 2011 little brown launched an imprint devoted to suspense publishing mulholland books . 8 self published source the company received the publisher of the year award three times . 9 on april 1 2013 reagan arthur became publisher of little brown . citation needed see also edit little brown book group badminton library list of largest uk book publishers notes and references edit little brown.com 175th anniversary . www.littlebrown.com . retrieved 2016 05 01 . a b c d little brown.com 175th anniversary . www.littlebrown.com . retrieved 2016 05 01 . hudson robert vernon 1987 01 01 . mass media a chronological encyclopedia of television radio motion pictures magazines newspapers and books in the united states . garland publishing incorporated . isbn 9780824086954 . a b c d lynde john h. october 28 1969 . editorial correspondence . whig & courier . access date requires url help one or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain wilson james grant ; fiske john eds . 1892 . little charles coffin . appletons cyclop dia of american biography . new york d. appleton . statutes at large . library of congress . retrieved 6 june 2012 . obituary publishers weekly january 11 1913 mulholland books book publishing in america madison ca mcgraw hill 1966 . bibliography edit oliver bill 1986 little brown and company in peter dzwonkonski ed . dictionary of literary biography volume forty nine american literary publishing houses 1638 1899 part 1 a m. detroit michigan gale research company . isbn 0 8103 1727 3 external links edit wikisource has original works published by or about little brown and company little brown book group uk little brown book group us v t e lagard re sca lagard re publishing hachette livre armand colin calmann l vy dalloz fayard gautier languereau grasset hachette hatier larousse librairie g n rale fran aise 80 % jc latt s pika stock hatier edelsa hachette usa black dog & leventhal center street faithwords grand central hyperion little brown mulholland books orbit yen 49 % hachette uk hachette children s orchard books1 franklin watts1 wayland headline hodder & stoughton coronet hodder faith mulholland quercus sceptre two roads 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