Henry Holt and Company is an American book-publishing company based in

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. One of the oldest publishers in the United States, it was founded in 1866 by Henry Holt and

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. Currently, the company publishes in the fields of American and international fiction,

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, and

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, as well as books for children's literature. In the US, it operates under

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The company publishes under several imprints, including Metropolitan Books,

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, Owl Books, and

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. It also publishes under the name of Holt Paperbacks. The company has published works by renowned authors Erich Fromm,

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, Robert Frost,

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, Norman Mailer,

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, and

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. From 1951 to 1985, Holt published the magazine ''

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''. Holt merged with

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of New York and the John C. Winston Company of Philadelphia in 1960 to become

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. ''The Wall Street Journal'' reported on March 1 that Holt stockholders had approved the merger, last of the three approvals. "Henry Holt is the surviving concern, but will be known as Holt, Rinehart, Winston, Inc."

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purchased the company in 1967, but in 1985, the group split, and the retail publishing arm, along with the Holt name, was sold to the

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based in Stuttgart, which has retained Holt as a subsidiary publishing under its original name and in the US it is part of

. The educational publishing arm, which retained the Holt, Rinehart and Winston name, was sold to Harcourt.

Book series

* Amateur Studies * American Science Series * The American Presidents Series * English Readings * Holt Spoken Language Series * Leisure Hour SeriesThe Leisure Hour Series (Henry Holt and Company) - Book Series List
publishinghistory.com. Retrieved 20 February 2019. * Leisure Moment Series * Library of Foreign Poetry * The Makers of the Nineteenth Century (General editor: Basil Williams)

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