Thomas Y. Crowell Co. was a

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company founded by Thomas Y. Crowell. The company began as a bookbindery founded by Benjamin Bradley in 1834. Crowell operated the business after Bradley's death in 1862 and eventually purchased the company from Bradley's widow in 1870.

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. Then in 1937, after T. Irving Crowell retired, the third generation Robert L. Crowell took over and moved towards publishing trade books and biographies. They were sold to

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in 1968. In 1974, Crowell acquired the textbook publisher Intext, which also owned the trade publisher Abelard-Schuman. In 1978, the company was sold to

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, which bought Lippincott and combined the two into Lippincott & Crowell in 1979. Lippincott & Crowell was merged into Harper & Row in 1980.

Published works

Reference works

*The French Revolution, A History (1 volume), 1893 *Works of Washington Irving * ''

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of Business and Finance'' * a Social Studies Series *'' The Radio Amateur's Handbook'' (at least 1964–1970) *''

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'' * ''The Soldiers' Diary and Note Book'', revised edition * ''

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'', 1960 * '' Motion Pictures in Education''

Non fiction

*''Cheaper by the Dozen'', 1948, by

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and

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Fiction

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detective/mystery series, *''The Works of William Shakespeare'' by William Shakespeare (undated) *Eight books in the ''Nine to Twelve Series'' for older children *''The Children of the Valley'' by

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*''Little Dick's Son'' by

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*''Marcia & the Major'' by

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* ''Song of the Bell'' by

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*''How Dexter Paid His Way'' by

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*''The Flatiron and the Red Cloak'' by

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*''In the Poverty Year'' by

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*''Little Sky-High'' by

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*''The Little Cave-Dwellers'' by

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*''The Poetical Works of John Milton'' by

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*''Westward the Sun'' by

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(1942) * The ''Betsy-Tacy'' books by

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*"Jed - A Boy's Adventure in the Army of 61-65 - A Story of Battle and Prison, of Peril and Escape" by Warren Lee Goss *"Poems, Plays and Essays" of

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, M.B. *"Poems: 'Longfellow's Early Poems" by

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*"Poems: 'The Complete Poetical Works of

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" (1900) *"Poems: '

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(1885) *"Poems: 'Proctor's Poems'" by

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(1880) *"Poems: 'Macaulay's Poems" by Lord Thomas Macaulay *''

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, Ed. F.H. Hedge, D.D. *''Cranford'' by Mrs. Gaskell * ''

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, Bart., 1898 (illustrated by Allan Stewart) * '' Father Fox's Pennyrhymes'',

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by Clyde Watson, with illustrations by her sister, Wendy Watson *Wordsworth's Complete Poetical Works...New York Thomas Y. Crowell Company Publishers (The Complete Poetical works of William Wordsworth with an introduction by John Morley dated 1888) *Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray ... New York Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. Publishers

Book series

* Astor Edition of Poetry * Astor Edition of Prose * Astor Library of Standard Literature * Children's Favorite Classics * Crowell's Colonial Series * Crowell's Red Line Poets * Famous Men and Women Library * Half-Hour Classics * Handy Volume Classics * Luxembourg Edition * Luxembourg Illustrated Classics Series * Luxembourg Illustrated Library * Masters of Contemporary Photography * Popular Books for Young People (also known as: Crowell's Library for Young People) * Sunday School Library, No. 1 * Well Spent Hour Library * What is Worth While SeriesWhat is Worth While Series
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References

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