[2] After graduation, Boehm worked for a number of publishers including McGraw-Hill Book Company, Cupples & Leon.
In 1949, Boehm founded Sterling Publishing in a telephone booth in the Hotel Pennsylvania.
[3] In 1956, after discovering 30,000 copies of The Guinness Book of Superlatives on the shelves of a Boston warehouse, Boehm rushed to secure publishing rights from Arthur Guinness Son & Co. of the magazine in the United States in return for a percentage of the sales.
[1] In 1961, Boehm secured rights to publish a separate American version of the Guinness World Records, with sales rising to two to three million copies a year during the 1970s.
[3] Boehm retired from the publisher in 1980 and died in his home on February 6, 2000, in New York City.