- Thomas Y. Crowell Co.
Thomas Y. Crowell Co. is a publishing company founded by
Thomas Y. Crowell in 1834.History
The company began publishing books in 1876, and in 1882
T. Irving Crowell joined his father in the business.Jeremiah Osborne Crowell became the sales manager.In 1909, after Thomas Y. Crowell died, T. Irving Crowell became the company's president. Collier was purchased by Crowell in 1919. Then in 1937, after T. Irving Crowell retired, the third generation
Robert L. Crowell took over and moved towards publishing trade books and biographies.Name change
In 1939 the name changed to
Crowell-Collier Publishing Co. After the second World War, the company went into decline, and by 1956, their three big magazines were shut down, leaving the firm with nothing but theHarvard Classics andCollier's Encyclopedia . They decided to expand to radio and textbooks but suffered a hostile takeover byMacmillan Publishers in 1960. In 1961, they purchasedFree Press of Glencoe . They were sold toDun-Donnelly Publishing Co. , and in 1978, they were sold toHarper & Row , who purchased Lippincott and combined the two intoCrowell & Lippincott .Published works
The company published a profitable line of reference works such as:
*Roget's InternationalThesaurus ,
*TheDictionary of Business and Finance
* aSocial Studies Series.
*The Radio Amateur's Handbook (at least 1964-1970)
*The Reader's Encyclopedia, ed. by William Rose BenetThey also published fictional titles:
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Frank Heller detective/mystery series,
*Eight books in the Nine to Twelve Series for older children
*"The Children of the Valley" byHarriet Prescott Spofford
*"Little Dick's Son" byKate Gannett Wells
*"Marcia & the Major" byJ.L. Harbour
*"How Dexter Paid His Way" byKate Upson Clark
*"The Flatiron and the Red Cloak" byAbby Morton Diaz
*"In the Poverty Year" byMarian Douglas
*"Little Sky-High" byHezekiah Butterworth
*"The Little Cave-Dwellers" byElla Farman Pratt
*"The Poetical Works of John Milton" byJohn Milton
*"Westward the Sun" byBrigid Knight (1942)
*"Poems, Plays and Essays" of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.
*"Poems: 'Longfellow's Early Poems" byHenry Wadsworth Longfellow
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