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Reilly & Britton
The Reilly and Britton Company, or Reilly & Britton (after 1918, Reilly & Lee) was an American publishing company of the early and middle 20th century, famous as the publisher of the works of L. Frank Baum.
==Founding==
When the Chicago publishing firm of George M. Hill, the publisher of the first edition of Baum's ''The Wonderful Wizard of Oz'' (1900), went out of business in March 1902, two of its employees, head salesman Sumner Charles Britton and production manager Frank Kennicott Reilly,〔Rogers, p. 121.〕 formed their own publishing venture, the Madison Book Company of Chicago. (Britton was an Arkansas native who first came to Chicago in 1893, to report on the World's Columbian Exposition for The Kansas City Star. He was strongly enough impressed with the city to relocate there in July 1894.)〔Meyer, "Notes from the Royal Historian."〕
In 1904, Reilly and Britton decided to incorporate as a new publishing house under their own names. Needing a name author, the new partners solicited Baum, who was unhappy with his arrangement with Bobbs-Merrill, publisher of several of his previous works.〔This company, originally Bowen-Merrill, had bought the rights to Baum's ''Father Goose: His Book,'' ''The Wonderful Wizard of Oz,'' and ''Dot and Tot of Merryland'' from the bankrupt George M. Hill Co., and published ''The Master Key'' (1901), ''The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus'' (1902), and ''The Enchanted Island of Yew'' (1903).〕 Signing Baum to an exclusive contract (dated 16 January 1904), the partners and their author agreed that the best way to start their joint effort was with a sequel to Baum's greatest success to date: the second of the Oz books, ''The Marvelous Land of Oz,'' was in print later in 1904, in time for the Christmas season.
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