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MOUTON EXPANDS

Moussault N.V. (Amsterdam) and Ichtiar Baru P.T. (Djakarta). The Edicom publishing houses had a joint sales company with Co-Libri N.V. in The Hague, and with Librico N.V. (Schelle, near Antwerp) in Belgium. Other technical companies besides Mouton which belonged to the Edicom group include Belinfante N.V. (The Hague), Geuze & Co. N.V. (Dordrecht), as well as Stokkink’s Boekbinderij N.V. (Amsterdam). As a result of the estab lishment of the Edicom concern, among other things, Mouton no longer published Frederik van Eeden’s De kleine Johannes, but the bestseller came out under the imprint of the literary publisher Manteau. An overview of Mouton’s activities of that time can be found in the Mouton Checklist 1970, a publisher’s list of 84 pages, that gives not only P.O. Box 1132 in The Hague as its address, but also 7, rue Dupuytren, 75-Paris Vie. 32 The catalogue is divided into three parts: series titles (p. 5-63), titles out side a series (p. 64-71), and periodicals (p. 72-73). An index and list of insti tutions, organizations, and universities, with which the publication of certain series was connected, was included. Van Schooneveld’s central position with Mouton is clear from the fact that the list of books from Slavisticprintings and reprintings, Janua linguarum and the series De proprietatibus litterarum, of which he also was the editor, consists of 19 pages. At that time, roughly one out of three monographs that appeared in any Mouton series was under the editorship of Van Schooneveld. Of all the other series, the Uralic and Altaic series was strongly represented with 113 volumes, that had been published since 1960 under the auspices of the ‘Research Center for the Language Sciences’ in Bloomington. This center was part of Indiana University, the same university where Van Schooneveld had been teaching since 1966. The series Publications of the Research Center in Anthropology, Folklore, and Linguistics was published by Mouton beginning with volume 10. These were also works of an Indiana University institute. Many series appeared under the auspices of French institutes, in partic ular the above mentioned ‘École pratique des hautes études’ (Sorbonne). Among others the economically and sociologically oriented series stand out: Cahiers de l’homme; Cahiers du centre de sociologie européenne; Civilisa tions et sociétés; Documents et recherches sur l’économie des pays byzantins, islamiques et slaves et leurs relations commerciales au Moyen-Age; Etudes sur l’histoire, l’économie et la sociologie des pays slaves, and Mathématiques et sciences de Vhomme. There were also French series published for the universities of