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G. K. Hall & Co. is an American book publisher based in Boston. It was founded sometime in the late 1950s by Garrison Kent Hall (1917–1973), who also had been an accountant. The firm initially, in the late 1950s through the 1960s, produced catalogs, in print and microform, of collections of renowned libraries – notably the New York Public Library. In the 1960s, Betty Jensen Hall’s new marketing strategy increased profits markedly and the firm expanded, producing other library references in the sciences, humanities, fine arts, and music. Beginning in 1971, two years after being acquired by ITT, the firm became a leading pioneer of publishing large-print editions of best-selling fiction and non-fiction books. In 1972 it acquired Gregg Press the scholarly reprint company. In 1973 it acquired

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  • G.K. Hall, en forme longue G.K. Hall and Company, est une maison d'édition américaine basée à Boston. Fondée par Garrison Kent Hall (1917-1973) à la fin des années 1950, elle est acquise par ITT en septembre 1969, puis par Macmillan Publishers en 1985 et enfin par Gale en 1999. G.K. Hall est, au début des années 1970, un éditeur de premier plan concernant les livres en gros caractères. Elle cesse son activé au cours des années 2000. (fr)
  • G. K. Hall & Co. is an American book publisher based in Boston. It was founded sometime in the late 1950s by Garrison Kent Hall (1917–1973), who also had been an accountant. The firm initially, in the late 1950s through the 1960s, produced catalogs, in print and microform, of collections of renowned libraries – notably the New York Public Library. In the 1960s, Betty Jensen Hall’s new marketing strategy increased profits markedly and the firm expanded, producing other library references in the sciences, humanities, fine arts, and music. Beginning in 1971, two years after being acquired by ITT, the firm became a leading pioneer of publishing large-print editions of best-selling fiction and non-fiction books. In 1972 it acquired Gregg Press the scholarly reprint company. In 1973 it acquired (en)
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  • G. K. Hall & Co. is an American book publisher based in Boston. It was founded sometime in the late 1950s by Garrison Kent Hall (1917–1973), who also had been an accountant. The firm initially, in the late 1950s through the 1960s, produced catalogs, in print and microform, of collections of renowned libraries – notably the New York Public Library. In the 1960s, Betty Jensen Hall’s new marketing strategy increased profits markedly and the firm expanded, producing other library references in the sciences, humanities, fine arts, and music. Beginning in 1971, two years after being acquired by ITT, the firm became a leading pioneer of publishing large-print editions of best-selling fiction and non-fiction books. In 1972 it acquired Gregg Press the scholarly reprint company. In 1973 it acquired Twayne Publishers. In 1989 it acquired Sandak, the art slide publisher. In 1990 it acquired Thorndike Press, its main American large print competitor. (en)
  • G.K. Hall, en forme longue G.K. Hall and Company, est une maison d'édition américaine basée à Boston. Fondée par Garrison Kent Hall (1917-1973) à la fin des années 1950, elle est acquise par ITT en septembre 1969, puis par Macmillan Publishers en 1985 et enfin par Gale en 1999. G.K. Hall est, au début des années 1970, un éditeur de premier plan concernant les livres en gros caractères. Elle cesse son activé au cours des années 2000. (fr)
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