Calling All UVa Student Book Collectors!

Enter the 2012 Book Collecting Contest

sponsored by the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia

First Prize: $300, plus a $1,095 Rare Book School Scholarship; Second Prize: $150; Honorable Mention: $75;  over $600 in gift certificates offered by local booksellers

The Rules

1. The contest is open to all UVa undergraduate, graduate, and professional students.
2. Collections that have won a prize in this contest in a previous year may not be submitted again in a subsequent year; but former winners are welcome to submit other collections in subsequent contests.
3. The collection must be owned and collected by the contestant.
4. Judges consider collections on the basis of coherence of focus, method of collecting, progress made in creating the collection, and the quality of the explanation of the collection’s focus. Where appropriate, the quality of the description of the books, that is, of the physical characteristics such as binding, cover decoration, and illustrations and bibliographical features such as format, printing and publication details, is taken into consideration. Collections are not judged on dollar value or size. Recent winning collections in the UVa contest have focused on physics textbooks, Victorian serial fiction, children’s series books such as the Hardy Boys books, eighteenth-century English literature, central African literature, flip-books, Arthurian legend, graphic novels, and Winston Churchill.
5. Contestants should submit the following information about themselves:

Name
Street or postal address
Telephone number
Email address
UVa school and (if relevant) class

A list of books organized by author, subject, or some other principle appropriate to the collection. See below for advice about the form of the essay and list.

1. Entries should be sent by via U.S. or messenger mail to Mrs. Anne Ribble, Executive Secretary, Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, PO Box 400152, Alderman Library, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22904. The deadline is midnight, Tuesday, February 14, 2012. The winners’ names will be publicly announced and prizes awarded at the annual meeting of the Society March 23, 2012.
2. The first place winner is eligible for the National Book Collecting Championship, which carries a top prize of $2,500.

The Essay

The essay might answer some of the following questions: How did you start? What are your most interesting books, and why? How do you intend to develop your collection in the future? What titles does the collection most need?

The List

The list of books must be organized according to some logical principle: most probably, by author or by subject. Each book listed should include at least the following information: author, title, date, place, publisher, format (e.g., hardback or paper), and an indication of condition.

Questions?

Address specific questions about the contest to Mrs. Anne Ribble at ar3g@virginia.edu. The following books may be useful in answering questions about book collecting:

• John Carter. ABC for Book Collectors. 7th ed. revised by Nicolas Barker. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Books, 1995.
• Jean Peters, ed. Book Collecting: A Modern Guide. New York: R. R. Bowker Co., 1978.

 

Winners of the Student Awards for Book Collecting 

2010

Winners

• First prize: Barbara Heritage, “Editing through Book Collecting: The Ordeal of The Ordeal of Richard Feverel“
• Second prize: Geoffrey Barstow, “Western Visions of Tibet”

Honorable Mention

• Brian Cofrancesco, “History through Architecture, Art, Archaeology, and Local Tradition”

2008

Winners First Prize: Jaideep Singh, “The Education of a Physicist: A Collection of Physics Textbooks” Second Prize: Christopher Bell, “Books of Tibet, Books from Tibet”

Honorable Mention Heather Burns, “Signed Contemporary American Poetry Books”

Winner of BSUVA Rare Book School Fellowship: Jaideep Singh

2006

Winners First Prize: Kenneth Price, “Artists’ Books in Popular Editions” Second Prize: Timothy Stinson, “Daredevil Comics and Graphic Novels”

Honorable Mention Elizabeth Ladner, “Alexandre Dumas Collection”

Winner of BSUVA Rare Book School Fellowship: Kenneth Price

2004

Winners Justin L. Gilbert (Victorian Serial Fiction: Penny Bloods, Penny Dreadfuls, and Boys’ Journals) Stephen Schroth (Children’s Series Books)

Honorable Mention Melissa White (A Collection of The Wide, Wide World)

Winner of BSUVA Fellowship for Rare Book School: Justin L. Gilbert

2002

Winners Catherine M. Rodriguez (Works of Frances Sheridan and Frances Burney) Edward J. Hutchinson (Works of Sir Winston Churchill)

Honorable Mention Adam Zissman (Flipbook Collection)

2000

Winners Jason Goldsmith (Jorge Luis Borges) Cristina Maria Cervone (medieval literature) Paul Gaffney (J.R.R. Tolkien)

Honorable Mention Barbara Wallace (general)

1998

Winners Megan Raymon and Bradley Daigle (Eighteenth-Century Literature) Bethany Nowviskie (Nineteenth-Century Verse) Matthew Kirschenbaum (Books by Johanna Drucker)

Honorable Mention Jynne Dilling Heather Morton Jodi Triplett Barbara Wallace Karen Wikander

1996

Winners Denis McNamara (High Church Architecture) Melissa Kennedy (Generation X) David L. Gants (Ben Jonson)

Honorable Mention Kimberly Horne Fred E. Lybrand Thomas A. Scott Andrew Tickle

1994

Winners Frank Grizzard (Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress) Matthew M. Davis (Major Authors) Kelly Tetterton (Woolf’s Orlando)

Honorable Mention Gregory Ashe Mary Fletcher Jones Gregory A. Riley

1992

Winners Michael Salkind, Jr. (Philip Dick) Stephanie Gertz (Gary Trudeau) Jonathan Smith (Trilogies)

Honorable Mention Susan E. Brown Andrew Higley Dan Mees Jonathan Rice James Sheire

1990

Winners John Piller (Contemporary Poetry) Samuel Pyeatt Menefee (Manuscript Diaries) David M. Seaman (Chaucer)

Honorable Mention Kevin L. Blackwell Diana Branscome Stephanie J. L. Gertz Sian M. Hunter W. Russ Mayes, Jr. Corinne McCutchan Frederick A. Patterson David Reed Victoria C. Rowan Theodore Wu

1989

Winners Maura Ives (George Meredith) David R. Evans (Eighteenth-Century Fables)

Honorable Mention R. Chace Anderson Bruce Glassco E. Mark Mones Liza Mundy Martin C. Perdue William M. Teem, IV David Vetter Thomas L. West, III

1987

Winners Al Defazio David R. Evans Brian S. Parsons Paul Reiferson

Honorable Mention Catesby B. Jones Bonnie LaVerne Rutherford

1985

Winners Mark J. Olson Glenn E. Anderson

1984

Winners Brian Mac Neil Stuart Leibiger Caroline Elizabeth Roesch

1982

Winners Jeff Copes Ralph E. Graves

1981

Winners J. D. Henson Gloria Walters

1980

Winners Joseph Robert Hartsoe Michael J. King

1979

Winners Peter Brehm Ashton Nichols

1977

Winners Jon W. Guillot David L. White

1975

Winners John B. Clayton IV Jon W. Guillot

1974

Winners Daniel J. Hoffheimer Stephen C. Neff Jason H. Silverman

1973

Winners William L. Beiswanger Michael F. E. Crossley John H. Harris James S. McNew

1972

Winners Charles A. Pfeiffer Kames J. Perconi Eugene C. Beagle, II Ronald L. Nunnery Joseph Sulock Alexa M. Smith

1971

Winners Martin A. Flayhart Teri Noel Towe

1970

First Prize James A. Means

Honorable Mention James B. Godfrey

1969

First Prizes James B. Carothers Robert M. Olton Hedgman D. Smith

Second Prizes William H. Flayhart James B. Godfrey

1968

Winners Willaim Henry Flayhart, III William Benjamin Jones

Honorable Mention Cynthia McMillan

1967

Winners William Henry Flayhart, III J. Bradley Hunt Gunter

Second Prize William C. Woolridge

Honorable Mention Christopher H. Nuttall Cynthia McMillan

Special Award Warner Dumas

1966

Winners Warner Dumas Paul A. Roy

Honorable Mention W. Cantey Sprott, Jr. Richard Erickson

Special Award William Weaver

1965

Winners Warner Dumas James M. Goode

Honorable Mention Julie F. Davis Thomas W. Scoville

1964

Winners Richard H. W. Dillard William S. Kable Edward M. Turner

1963

Winner James R. Soles

Honorable Mention Michael A. Callahan Alan W. Scheflin

1962

Winners James Nalle Boyd William Sanderson Kable

Honorable Mention Peter Dunlap Pelham Ronald George Rago

1961

Awards for Book Collecting

Winner (in Book Collecting) Matthew J. Bruccoli

Honorable Mention Ronald Rago

Awards for Bibliography

Winner Oliver L. Steele

1960

Winner Nathaniel P. Neblett

1959

Awards for Book Collecting

Winner William R. Woods

Honorable Mention Edward S. Moore, III

Awards for Bibliography

Winner Donald E. Glover

1958

Awards for Book Collecting

Winner Alan Brinkley

Honorable Mention Willard Buyers

Awards for Bibliography

Winner Matthew J. Bruccoli

Honorable Mention Oliver Steele

1957

Awards for Book Collecting

Winner Richard H. Peake, Jr.

Awards for Bibliography

Winners Matthew J. Bruccoli Robert K. Turner, Jr.

1956

Awards for Book Collecting

Winner Charles N. Biondi

Awards for Bibliography

Winners George Walton Williams

1955

Winners George W. Williams Philip A. Kolvoord James McNally James E. Irvine

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