Little, Brown and Company is a Boston-founded American publisher dating from 1837, known for The Catcher in the Rye and James Patterson, and part of Hachette Book Group since 2006.
Little, Brown and Company is a publisher active from 1992. We track 21 editions it published between 1992 and 2022, 20 of them first editions across 21 books. How Little, Brown and Company marked its first editions is set out below, with a checker for the year on your title page.
About Little, Brown and Company
Little, Brown and Company is an American publisher founded in Boston in 1837 by Charles Coffin Little and James Brown, and since 2006 it has been part of Hachette Book Group.
The firm grew out of bookselling and was for many years a major law publisher and importer. Its early lists included Emily Dickinson's poetry, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations and the American edition of Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. From 1925 to 1985 it shared an imprint with the Atlantic Monthly, under which it issued All Quiet on the Western Front and J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye.
Time Inc. bought Little, Brown in 1968, and after the 1989 merger of Time and Warner Communications it sat in the Time Warner book group, which bought the British publisher Macdonald in 1992 to give it a UK arm. Its editorial staff moved from Boston to New York in 2001. In 2006 Time Warner sold the book group to Hachette Livre, and the American house now operates within Hachette Book Group, while the British business is the Little, Brown Book Group within Hachette UK.
Modern authors include James Patterson, Nelson Mandela, Malcolm Gladwell, Stephenie Meyer and David Foster Wallace.
Holding a copy? The first edition checker shows Little, Brown and Company's practice for the year on your title page.
Identification
How to identify Little, Brown and Company first editions
What to look for
Since the 1940s a Little, Brown first printing has normally stated "First Edition" or "First Printing" on the copyright page.
1930s: a first edition usually carries one line on the copyright page giving the month and year of publication; each later printing adds a further line, so a copy with a single dated line is the one to look for.
1940s onwards: look for the words "First Edition" or "First Printing" on the copyright page.
Late 1970s onwards: a number line was added to the copyright page; on a first printing it runs down to 1.
How do I identify a Little, Brown and Company first edition?
Since the 1940s a Little, Brown first printing has normally stated "First Edition" or "First Printing" on the copyright page. - 1930s: a first edition usually carries one line on the copyright page giving the month and year of publication; each later printing adds a further line, so a copy with a single dated line is the one to look for. - 1940s onwards: look for the words "First Edition" or "Firs
How many Little, Brown and Company books does MyVolumes track?
We track 21 editions published by Little, Brown and Company, 20 of them first editions, across 21 books.
