Times Books
Times Books is The New York Times Company's book imprint, licensed to Random House from 1984 to 2000 and to Henry Holt since 2000, and first publisher of Dreams from My Father.
- Editions tracked
- 19
- First editions
- 13
- Books
- 19
- Years
- 1978 to 2006
About Times Books
Times Books is a New York book imprint owned by The New York Times Company, which grew out of the newspaper's 1969 purchase of the Chicago publisher Quadrangle Books and has been licensed to other publishers since 1984.
Quadrangle Books had been founded in Chicago in 1959 by Michael Braude. After the Times bought it, the business traded as The New York Times Book Company and took the name Times Books in 1977. In 1984 the newspaper, deciding to leave publishing to publishers, licensed the name to Random House for fifteen years, with a right of first refusal on material that had appeared in the Times. Peter Osnos ran the imprint from 1991 to 1996, and in autumn 1999 it was moved into Random House's Crown group.
A notable title from the Random House years is Barack Obama's memoir Dreams from My Father, published by Times Books on 18 July 1995. When the licence lapsed the Times took the trademark back in January 2000, and Random House folded the remaining staff and contracted titles into Crown. Later that year the Times licensed the name to Henry Holt and Company, part of Holtzbrinck's Macmillan.
We have not yet written the guide to Times Books's first-edition conventions. Until we do, check each book's own page: we list its points where we know them. Know how Times Books marked its firsts? Tell us.
Published by Times Books
Frequently asked questions
How many Times Books books does MyVolumes track?
We track 19 editions published by Times Books, 13 of them first editions, across 19 books.
Where these facts come from
- Times Books, Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org)
- NYT Reclaims Times Books in New Random House Pact, Publishers Weekly, 2000 (publishersweekly.com)
- Dreams from My Father, Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org)
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