HADLEY PUBLISHING COMPANY

HADLEY PUBLISHING COMPANY
   US specialist SMALL PRESS, 1947-8, based in Providence, Rhode Island, owned by Thomas P. Hadley. It grew out of (or was a renaming of) Buffalo Book Co., under which name it published The Time Stream (1931 WonderStories; 1946) by John TAINE and The Skylark of Space (1928 AMZ; 1946) by E.E. "Doc" SMITH. A very short-lived company, HPC was notable for publishing John W. CAMPBELL Jr's first book, The Mightiest Machine (1934-5 ASF; 1947), A.E. VAN VOGT's The Weapon Makers (1943 ASF; 1947; rev vt OneAgainst Eternity 1952) and L. Ron HUBBARD's Final Blackout (1940 ASF; 1948). The company was bought out by Donald M. Grant (1927-) and became the Grandon Company; later, under his own name, Grant became an important small-press publisher of fantasy.
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