The Fourth Annual George and Anna Eliot Ticknor Book and Book Culture Collecting Prize

The Ticknor Society is now accepting submissions for the Fourth Annual George and Anna Eliot Ticknor Book and Book Culture Collecting Prize, which was created to encourage and recognize those in New England who have been inspired to form a book collection of their own. The Prize awards $1000 to a collector of books, manuscripts, […]

ABAA National Collegiate Book Collecting Contest Deadline

Sponsored by the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America The ABAA is now accepting entries for the 2022 National Collegiate Book Collecting Contest, where more than $6,000 in prizes will be awarded to student collectors. The National Collegiate Book Collecting Contest is open to all prizewinners of college book-collecting contests, whether or not first prize, as well as to interested students […]

National Collegiate Book Collecting Contest Prize Ceremony, with Mark Dimunation

Sponsored by the ABAA October 21, 3:00pm Eastern time Please join us to honor this year's prizewinners of the National Collegiate Book Collecting Contest’s Susan Tane Prize for Student Book Collectors, via Zoom. In addition to the awards, the Library of Congress' Chief of Rare Books and Special Collections Division, Mark Dimunation, will interview each […]

David Ruggles Prize for Young Collectors of Color: Deadline

The David Ruggles Prize is an international book collecting prize created to support and encourage young collectors of color: https://rugglesprize.org/ The prize honors the legacy of David Ruggles, an early American abolitionist, publisher, and Underground Railroad conductor. The New York grocery store he opened in 1828 soon became the country’s first Black-owned bookstore. There was […]

Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize deadline

The Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize confers a cash award of $1000 for an outstanding book collection conceived and built by a young woman. The deadline is June 15. The contest is open to women book collectors in the United States, aged 30 or younger. Contestants do not need to be enrolled in a […]