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Here is the news from FABS for May:
May Blogging: If you enjoy decorated cloth bindings or miniature books, don’t miss our new blog post by Kathy Roberts, highlighting examples of Japonism in nineteenth-century miniature cloth publisher’s bindings. Kathy provides a mini-tutorial on the craze for Japanese-inspired design and shows how it was applied in her collection of exquisite tiny tomes, often presented as gifts. The photos alone are worth the click!
The Book Hunters Club of Houston has just published Kurt Zimmerman’s newest, The Relentless Pursuit of Books: Further Essays and Escapades. This is an absorbing collection of essays featuring the author’s trademark humor, charm and deep bibliographical knowledge. Readers of the FABS Journal know him as the heroic book hunter of our column "Kurt's Biblio Wanderings"!
For a short time only, America’s oldest and largest society for bibliophiles and enthusiasts in the graphic arts is offering most of its publications at a deep discount. Don’t miss this unique opportunity to add to your collection of books about books, at irresistible prices, some as low as $5!
The sale runs from May 1 to June 15.
To order books, click here and be sure to enter promo code GROLIERSPRING at checkout.
To order by phone, call (800) 621-2736 and mention promo code GROLIERSPRING.
The Grolier Club
47th East 60th Street New York, NY 10022
Bibliophilic Contest and Prize News
The David Ruggles Prize is an international book collecting prize established to support and encourage young collectors of color: https://rugglesprize.org/ The 2025 prize season is now open, with a June 8 deadline this year. The contest is open to anyone aged 35 and under, anywhere in the world. Please share it widely -- with your students, your colleagues, your customers, applicants for other collecting prizes, wherever book collectors might be found. There are three prizes, so three chances to win: $1,000 grand prize, $500 second prize, and $250 third prize. The five judges represent an impressive breadth of the book world and are excited to see those applications. For last year’s winning collections, see https://rugglesprize.org/winners You can help spread the word by distributing Ruggles bookmarks (contact info@rugglesprize.org) and by following the David Ruggles Prize on Bluesky, Instagram or Threads.
The ABAA is accepting entries for the 2025 National Collegiate Book Collecting Contest where more than $6,000 in prizes will be awarded to student collectors. Read more about last year's winners here. The contest is open to all prizewinners of college contests, whether or not first prize, and to interested students whose institutions do not offer contests. Please encourage contest winners to apply. More information can be found here. All entries should be submitted here by June 9, 2025. For more information on the contest, please visit contest.abaa.org.
The Caxton Club is pleased to announce the recipient of the 2025 T. Kimball Brooker/Caxton Club Scholarship at Rare Book School: Perry Harrison, assistant professor in the English Department at Fort Hays State University in Hays, Kansas. Perry will be attending RBS course, “Researching Medieval Manuscripts: From Cataloging to Cultural History.” The $2,500 T. Kimball Brooker/Caxton Club Scholarship is given to a deserving, talented individual in the Midwest with professional interests in bibliography, book history, or the book arts, for attending a course at Rare Book School. Congratulations to Perry!
The Legal History and Rare Books Special Interest Section of the American Association of Law Libraries, in cooperation with The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd., is conducting its annual Morris L. Cohen Student Essay Competition (https://www.aallnet.org/lhrbsis/awards-grants/). Full- and part-time students currently enrolled in accredited graduate programs in law, history, library science, or related fields are eligible to enter. Essays may be on any topic related to legal history, rare law books, or legal archives. The winner will receive a $1,000 prize from The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd., and will present the essay at an LHRB sponsored webinar. The authors of the winning and runner-up essays will have the opportunity to publish their essays in LHRB’s online scholarly journal.
At Duke, the winners of the 2025 Andrew Nadell Prize for Book Collecting have been announced. The Undergraduate prize went to Phoebe Trask for “Bandes Dessinées from a French Childhood: A Colorful Window into French History, Politics, and Culture,” with second place to Sophia Cox for “The Natural World: The Line Between Science and Magic and Between the Known and the Unknown.” In the Graduate/Professional Schools category two first place prizes were awarded: Peter de Guzman, graduate student in Interdisciplinary Data Science, for his collection “What is his identity?: Building a Filipino American Library”; and Merlin Ganzevoort, a doctoral candidate in the Carolina-Duke German Studies Program, for his collection “From Parisian Gardens to Treasure Island: 19th Century and Early 20th Century Travel and Adventure Literature.” Second place went to Daniel Orr, a doctoral candidate in Classical Studies, for his collection “Greek and Latin Student Commentaries 1908-2021.” Congratulations to the winners!
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