Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of America 2024 National Collegiate Book Collecting Contest Winners Announced
Established in 2005 by Fine Books & Collections Magazine to recognize outstanding book collecting efforts by college and university students, the competition is now jointy administered by the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America, the Fellowship of American Bibliophilic Societies, and the Grolier Club, and is supported by the Rare Books and Special Collections Division of the Library of Congress.
This year's first prize has been awarded to Amanda Zhao of Georgetown University for War’s Little People with a focus on exploring second world war history and especially the effects of the war on civilians.
Second prize went to Dennis Schaefer from Princeton University for Charting the Visual Universes of E.T.A. Hoffmann Illustrators, an interest stimulated when he received a highly illustrated edition of Hoffmann’s The Golden Pot when he joined the E.T.A. Hoffmann Society.
An awards celebration will be held at the Library of Congress’s Whittall Pavilion on September 13 with a keynote speech from book dealer and author Rebecca Romney.
Collector, bibliophile, and philanthropist Susan Jaffe Tane funds the prizes for the National Collegiate Book Collecting Contest. The prize is known as The Susan Tane Prize for Student Book Collectors.
