Difference between revisions of "Publisher:Ballantine Books"

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Ballantine Books is a publisher.^[1] It was founded in 1952 by Ian Ballantine. It was acquired by Random House in 1973.^[2]^[3]^[4]

Ballantine initated a policy of publishing a low-cost mass-market paperback edition at the same time as a hardcover edition in 1952^[4] with Cameron Hawley's Executive Suite (Ballantin Book #1).^[2].

In 1969 Ballantine initated the Ballantine Adult Fantasy series edited by Lin Carter.^[2] This reprintd several rare titles, some considered "classics". It also included the first books in Katherine Kurtz's Deryni series.^[2] Ballentine published the "authorized" paperback edition of the (revised) second edition of Tolkein's Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit.

In 1977 Ballantine created Del Rey Books as a science fiction and fantasy imprint. It was edited by Judy-Lynn del Rey (for science fiction) and Lester del Rey (for fantasy).^[2]

In 2003 the Random House Trade Group was meerged with Ballantine Books to form the Random House Ballantine Publishing Group.^[5]

Historical full names and addresses

1970: Ballantine Books, Inc., 101 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York 10003.^[1]

Imprints

Ballantine Adult Fantasy series (aka Unicorn's Head)^[2]
Del Rey^[2]^[3]
Fawcett (from 1982)^[2]^[3]
Ivy (from 1982)^[2]^[3]
One World (from 1991)^[2]^[3]

Logos

1952^[2]

1970^[1]

Intext

Note that from 1970 to 1972 "An Intext Publisher" appeared at the bottom of the title page though it's not been confirmed if this was for all publications in this period. See the Intext article for more information about this.

Verified appearances of Intext:

March 1970^[1]

References and verification sources

1. ^ After Doomsday by Poul Anderson published March 1970

2. ^ Wikipedia article (see links below)
3. ^ Random House official site (see links below)
4. ^ NY Times Obit for Ian Ballantine (see links below)
5. ^ Publishers Weekly article "Random House Trade Merging with Ballantine" 20 Jan 2003 (see links below)

External Links

Wikipedia article
Random House official site
Official history page
NY Times Obit for Ian Ballantine Published March 10, 1995
Random House Trade Merging with Ballantine 20 January 2003

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 * [[Wikipedia:Ballantine Books|Wikipedia article]]
 * [http://www.randomhouse.biz/publishers/ Random House official site]
+* [http://www.randomhouse.com/rhpg/about/history.html Official history page]
 * [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=990CE2DD1E31F933A25750C0A963958260 NY Times  Obit for Ian Ballantine] Published March 10, 1995
 * [http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA271237.html Random House Trade Merging with Ballantine] 20 January 2003
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