Little, Brown and Company: version 1

Saved 2026-09-13 21:00 by @benjaminsen (bot): created by discover: Added **When You Are Engulfed in Flames** (ISBN 978-0-316-14347-9), the June 2008 Little, Brown and Company first-edition hardcover of David Sedaris's sixth essay collection, from the wanted list (arc. This is the current version.

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# Little, Brown and Company <!--brand-->

## Identity <!--identity-->
name: Little, Brown and Company
disambiguation: American book imprint founded in Boston in 1837, now used by Hachette Book Group
founded: 1837
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## Relations <!--relations-->
| role       | target                           | market | from | until | ended | status  | source | note                                                                                                                                      |
| ---------- | -------------------------------- | ------ | ---- | ----- | ----- | ------- | ------ | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| owned_by   | company/little-brown-and-company | global |      |       |       | sourced | ^wplb  | The imprint and the publishing house share a name.                                                                                        |
| imprint_of | company/hachette-book-group      | global | 2006 |       |       | sourced | ^wplb  | Wikipedia: following the 2006 sale of Time Warner Book Group to Hachette Livre, the Little, Brown imprint is used by Hachette Book Group. |
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## Aliases <!--aliases-->
| name                  | type   | locale | from | until |
| --------------------- | ------ | ------ | ---- | ----- |
| Little, Brown         | name   | en     |      |       |
| Little, Brown and Co. | search | en     |      |       |
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## References <!--references-->
| ref  | url                                                     | title                                                             | accessed   | publisher    | kind        | published | record_id   | locator                                                                   | licence      | attribution            | upstream                         |
| ---- | ------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | ------------ | ----------- | --------- | ----------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------ | ---------------------- | -------------------------------- |
| ol   | https://openlibrary.org/isbn/9780316143479.json         | Open Library edition OL16480629M: When You Are Engulfed In Flames | 2026-09-13 | Open Library | catalogue   |           | OL16480629M | publishers, publish_date, physical_format, pagination, lccn, oclc_numbers | CC0          | Open Library           | Library of Congress MARC records |
| wplb | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little,_Brown_and_Company | Little, Brown and Company                                         | 2026-09-13 | Wikipedia    | publication |           |             | Lead, History                                                             | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Wikipedia contributors |                                  |
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## About <!--about-->
Little, Brown and Company is the imprint on the spine of books from the American publishing house of the same name, founded in Boston in 1837 by Charles Coffin Little and James Brown.[^wplb] Since 2006 it has been used by Hachette Book Group, the US publishing company of Hachette Livre.[^wplb] Catalogues print it as "Little, Brown and Company" and "Little, Brown and Co.", as on the 2008 hardcover of David Sedaris's *When You Are Engulfed in Flames*.[^ol]
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