Bi-Annual Book Collecting Contest

The Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia holds a Book Collecting Contest in the spring of alternating years. The contest is open to currently enrolled undergraduate and graduate students at the University of Virginia. First prize is $300; Second prize, $150; Honorable Mention, $75. See the rules for details. For more information on the contest please address email to bibsoc@virginia.edu.


Winners of the Student Awards for Book Collecting

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

from left to right: Christopher Bell, 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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