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Harper (publisher)

Harper is an American publishing house, the flagship imprint of global publisher HarperCollins based in New York City. Founded in New York in 1817 by James Harper and his brother John, the company operated as J. & J. Harper until 1833, when it changed its name to Harper & Brothers, reflecting the inclusion of Joseph and Fletcher Harper. Harper began publishing Harper's Magazine, Harper's Weekly, and other periodicals beginning in the 1850s. From 1962 to 1990, the company was known as Harper & Row after its merger with Row, Peterson & Company. Harper & Row was purchased in 1987 by News Corporation and combined with William Collins, Sons, its United Kingdom counterpart, in 1990 to form HarperCollins, although the Harper name has been used in its place since 2007.

Parent company

March 6, 1817 (1817-03-06) (as J. & J. Harper)

James Harper
John Harper

Paperbacks[edit]

After the purchase of Harper & Row by News Corporation, HarperCollins launched a new mass-market paperback line to complement its existing trade paperback Perennial imprint. It was known as Harper Paperbacks from 1990 to 2000, HarperTorch from 2000 to 2006, and Harper from 2007 to the present.

Books in the United States

Brooks Thomas

Cyclopædia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Harper & Row v. Nation Enterprises

The Long Short Cut

(1855), The Harper Establishment, New York: Harper & Brothers, OCLC 6798043, OL 14010983M

Jacob Abbott

Barnes, James J. "Edward Lytton Bulwer and the Publishing Firm of Harper & Brothers". American Literature (1966): 35–48.  2923628.

JSTOR

D'Amato, Martina. , Visualizing 19th Century New York.

"'The Harper Establishment'; or, How a New York Publishing Giant Was Made"

. The brothers Harper: a unique publishing partnership and its impact upon the cultural life of America from 1817 to 1853 (Harper & Row, 1965)

Eugene Exman

Eugene Exman (1967), The House of Harper, New York: Harper & Row,  586430, OL 25416327M

OCLC

J. Henry Harper (1912), The House of Harper: a century of publishing in Franklin Square, New York: Harper,  7136715M

OL

Mellman, John A. (2017), , publishinghistory.com.

"The Harper Torchbooks Series: A History and Personal Assessment"

(US)

Official website

(UK) (Archived July 29, 2012, at the Wayback Machine)

Official website

(archived 15 April 2004)

The Harper Brothers Founders of Harper Brothers Publishing

Finding aid to and Harper & Row Publishers records at Columbia University. Rare Book & Manuscript Library.

Harper & Brothers records

Harper, and Harper & Brothers at Open Library

Harper & Row