![]() (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. 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, formed their own publishing venture, the Madison Book Company of Chicago. When the Chicago publishing firm of George M. ![]() ![]() Lee until it was acquired by the Henry Regnery Company in 1959. Hill's publishing company, Frank Kennicott Reilly and Charles Britton, the company would later be guided by William F. Founded in 1904 by two former employees of George M. The Reilly and Britton Company, known after 1918 as Reilly & Lee, was an American publishing company of the early and middle 20th century, best known for children's and popular culture books from authors like L. ![]() Frank Kennicott Reilly Sumner Charles Britton ![]()
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