Drum roll, please....
Fine Books & Collections is proud to announce the winners of our first Collegiate Book-Collecting Championship. In order to enter our contest, students had to win a book-collecting contest at their college or university. With ties and multiple contest categories at some schools, we had 44 entries from 30 colleges.
Our judges - Ben Weinstein of Heritage Book Shop (ably assisted by James Gannon and Nat Des Marais), Joel Silver, curator of books at the Lilly Library, and collector George Ong - spent several weeks reviewing more than 500 pages of entries.
Join us at the awards ceremony on September 16 at the Grolier Club in New York City.
A profile of the winners and an excerpt from one of the winning essays will appear in the September/October issue of Fine Books & Collections. There's still time to subscribe...
Without any more ado, here are the winners:
First Place
Daniel McKee, Cornell University
Collection: Educational Books of Japan's Meiji Period
Prize: $2,500; trip to the awards ceremony; one-year membership in the Grolier Club; $1,000 donation in his name to Cornell University Library
Second Place & Editor's Choice Award
William Miglore, Amherst College
Collection: Ray Bradbury
Prize: $1,000; trip to the awards ceremony; expense-paid scholarship to the Rare Book School; $500 donation in his name to the Amherst College Library.
Third Place
David Rando
Collection: Finnegans Wake Reference Books
Prize: $500; trip to the awards ceremony; $250 donation in his name to the Cornell Library (NB. David Rando and Daniel McKee tied for first place in Cornell's competition).
Honorable Mention
Sabahat Adil, University of Chicago
Collection: Travel Writing
Adam Doskey, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Collection: Malcolm Lowry
Congratulations to all the winners and to the contestants.
The Fine Books & Collections Collegiate Book-Collecting Championship was sponsored in part by Biblio.com, PBA Galleries, Heritage Book Shop, and the Grolier Club.




First Place
Daniel McKee, Cornell University
Collection: Educational Books of Japan's Meiji Period
Prize: $2,500; trip to the awards ceremony; one-year membership in the Grolier Club; $1,000 donation in his name to Cornell University Library
Second Place & Editor's Choice Award
William Miglore, Amherst College
Collection: Ray Bradbury
Prize: $1,000; trip to the awards ceremony; expense-paid scholarship to the Rare Book School; $500 donation in his name to the Amherst College Library.
Third Place
David Rando
Collection: Finnegans Wake Reference Books
Prize: $500; trip to the awards ceremony; $250 donation in his name to the Cornell Library (NB. David Rando and Daniel McKee tied for first place in Cornell's competition).
Honorable Mention
Sabahat Adil, University of Chicago
Collection: Travel Writing
Adam Doskey, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Collection: Malcolm Lowry
Congratulations to all the winners and to the contestants.
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