Status | Defunct |
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Founded | 1890 |
Founder | Van Antwerp, Bragg and Co., A.S. Barnes & Co., D. Appleton and Co., and Ivison, Blakeman and Co. |
Defunct | 1981 |
Successor | D. C. Heath and Company |
Country of origin | United States |
Publication types | books |
The American Book Company (ABC) was an educational book publisher in the United States that specialized in elementary school, secondary school and collegiate-level textbooks. It is best known for publishing the McGuffey Readers, which sold 120 million copies between 1836 and 1960.[1]