Bi-Annual Book-Collecting Contest, 2002

Winners of the Bi-Annual Book Collecting Contest for 2002 are:

• First place: Catherine M. Rodriguez (Works of Frances Sheridan and Frances Burney)
• Second place: Edward J. Hutchinson (Works of Sir Winston Churchill)
• Honorable Mention: Adam Zissman (Flipbook Collection)

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. The collection does not need to consist of rare books. The substance of the collection will be of the prime importance in the judging.
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.

6. Entries should be sent 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.
7. The winners' names will be publicly announced and prizes awarded at the annual meeting of the Society in March.
8. Selections from the winners' collections will be displayed in cases in Alderman Library's Memorial Hall.

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 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.

Address specific questions about the contest to Mrs 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.
Past Winners of the Student Awards for Book Collecting