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Random House
- Vintage BooksAlfred A. Knopf launched Vintage Books in 1954 as a trade paperback imprint within his own publishing house. This move arrived at a time when paperbacks were…
- The Bodley HeadIn 1887, booksellers Elkin Mathews and John Lane opened a shop in London to trade in rare antiquarian volumes. The partners chose the name Bodley Head from a…
- Random HouseRandom House began with a casual remark that became a company name. In 1927, Bennett Cerf told his new partner Donald Klopfer that they were simply going to…
- Bantam BooksBantam Books began in 1945 as an unlikely coalition of publishing ambitions. Walter B. Pitkin Jr., Sidney B. Kramer, and Ian and Betty Ballantine pooled…
- Viking PressHarold K. Guinzburg and George S. Oppenheimer established Viking Press in New York City on the 1st of March 1925. They chose a name that evoked enterprise…
- Alfred A. KnopfAlfred A. Knopf, Inc. was built on five thousand dollars borrowed from a father, and it became one of the most decorated publishing houses in American…
- Bantam SpectraBantam Spectra is the science fiction division of Bantam Books, a publishing company owned by Random House. Its authors have collectively won 31 awards in…
- Pantheon BooksPantheon Books began its life in 1942 in New York City, founded by two refugees who had crossed an ocean to escape fascism and the Holocaust.
- Ballantine BooksIan Ballantine announced a new plan in 1952 that would change how books reached readers. He offered trade publishers simultaneous hardcover and paperback…
- Heinemann (publisher)William Heinemann opened his doors in Covent Garden, London, during 1890. The first book to bear the company name was Hall Caine's The Bondman.
- Del Rey BooksDel Rey Books launched in 1977 with a husband-and-wife team at the helm and a fantasy novel that no major publisher had wanted to touch.
- Hogarth PressIn 1917, Leonard Woolf and Virginia Woolf purchased a handpress for £19. They set up the machine in their dining room at Hogarth House in Richmond.