Upon my return in September of 1973 from my sabbatical year in Beirut, where I had time to think through the initial plan of publishing dissertations, I approached the president of a local commercial printing company who also happened to be a friend. He, after several days of consideration, gave me the green light to go ahead and plan publications of theological monographs at the company's expense. I served as general editor fully responsible in all decisions to negotiate with authors, translators and editors of collected essays on the possible publication of their works. Thus
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in 1974 the Pickwick-Morcroft Company began to publish monographs under the name of Pickwick Press.
> Dikran Y. Hadidian,
Editor and Publisher, Pickwick Publications