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American Book Company
A major force in American textbook publishing for decades, this company helped shape what generations of students used in classrooms across the United States. Its long history includes a huge educational catalog and a notable role in the schoolbook industry of the late 19th and 20th centuries.
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Complete Classified Price List of School & College Textbooks. January 1915
by American Book Company
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American Book Company was a U.S. educational publisher best known for producing textbooks for elementary, secondary, and college-level study. Reliable sources describe the original company, founded in 1890, as a major textbook house formed through the consolidation of several earlier publishers.
Its books appeared widely in schools, and its name shows up across many Library of Congress records for history, literature, and other classroom subjects from the early 1900s. That broad reach made it one of the most recognizable names in American educational publishing for many years.
There is also a later, separate company with the same name, founded in 1996, focused on test-preparation and instructional materials. Because the name refers to more than one company, readers may want to distinguish between the historic 1890 textbook publisher and the modern business using the same title.