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3 unusual facts about Bobbs-Merrill Company


Bobbs-Merrill Company

In 1949, Bobbs-Merrill commissioned artist Evelyn Copelman to illustrate a new edition of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, reprinted as The Wizard of Oz and The New Wizard of Oz.

Camilla Kenyon

Her first novel was Spanish Doubloons, originally published in 1919 by Bobbs Merrill, also serialized in Munsey's Magazine and republished in a less-costly hardback edition by the A.L. Burt Company.

Irma S. Rombauer

For several years her inquiries brought only rejection letters; but in 1935 her manuscript was accepted (on the third submission) by the Bobbs-Merrill Company, an Indianapolis-based firm specializing in legal publications, children's literature, and trade books.


Paper doll

Book publishing companies that followed in the production of paper dolls or cut-outs were Lowe, Whitman, Saalfield and Merrill among others.

Rhoda Truax

Joseph Lister, Father of Modern Surgery, Bobbs Merrill, Indianapolis and New York, 1944


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