Four Seas Company

{{short description|American bookstore and small-press publisher}}

The Four Seas Company was a bookstore and small-press publisher in Boston, Massachusetts.{{Cite book|title=Adventures in American Bookshops, Antique Stores and Auction Rooms|last=Bruno|first=Guido|publisher=Douglas Bookshop|year=1922|location=Detroit|pages=106}} It is remembered today mostly for its publication of the early work of major modernist writers such as William Faulkner,{{cite web |title=William Faulkner: Apprentice Years |url=https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/108166/apprentice.html |website=The University of Michigan Special Collections Library |access-date=22 February 2020}} William Carlos Williams, Gertrude Stein,{{cite book |last1=Dydo |first1=Ulla E. |last2=Rice |first2=William |title=Gertrude Stein: The Language That Rises: 1923-1934 |date=2003 |publisher=Northwestern University Press |isbn=0-8101-1919-6 |page=44 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=m0yTw5fdIjsC&dq=%22four+seas+company%22&pg=PA44 |access-date=22 February 2020}} and Yone Noguchi. Four Seas was founded by the young Edmund R. Brown upon his graduation from Harvard College in 1910,Shackelford, Lynne P. "Four Seas Company." American Literary Publishing Houses, 1900-1980: Trade and Paperback, edited by Peter Dzwonkoski, Gale, 1986. Dictionary of Literary Biography Vol. 46. Gale Literature Resource Center, https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/H1220000368/GLS?sid=GLS&xid=0f109352 and its imprint first appears in 1911. The last book published under the imprint was in 1930, the year the company was absorbed by Bruce Humphries, Inc.{{cite web |last1=Krygier |first1=John |title=Contemporary Series: The Four Seas Company |url=https://seriesofseries.owu.edu/contemporary-series/ |website=Ohio Wesleyan University |access-date=22 February 2020}}