Although the collecting continues, the entries are in and the 2007/2008 Elmer Adler Undergraduate Book Collecting Prize is closed. I would like to thank all the students who entered and wish them the best of luck. The judges are reading the essays and will select the winners before the end of the calendar year. These names will be announced at the Winter Banquet of the Friends of the Princeton University Library on Saturday, February 2, 2008 and to the general public on February 4.
Our first place essay will be entered into the National Collegiate Book Collecting Championship, established and sponsored by Fine Books & Collections Magazine. http://www.finebooksmagazine.com/contest/index.phtml
For a list of past Princeton University contest winners and their topics, continue with this posting below:
Elmer Adler Undergraduate Book Collecting Prize, Princeton University
First prize winners and their topics
2007, Kendall Turner, class of 2007, Seeing One’s Self in Textbooks of Times Past: Reflections on a Collection of Children’s Schoolbooks
2006, Rahul Mehra, class of 2007, The Enigma of Reading
2005, Jacob Savage, class of 2006, Collecting Minutiae: The Joys of Old and Esoteric History
2004, Anna McLain Pierrehumbert, class of 2007, Absolutely Valued: My Traveling Set of Math Books
2003, Allen K. Taylor, class of 2003, Learning to See
2002, Nicholas Samuel Fitch, class of 2003, Una locura Argentina
2001, Jonathan Kennedy, class of 2003, The White Mountains; or, My Own Life in the Woods
2000, Robert Hill, class of 2000, On the Trail of the Classics
1999, Hyeseung Song, class of 2001, The Books in My Blue Room
1998, Pavan Ahluwalia, class of 1999, Religious Books: A Collector’s Reflections
1997, Krassimira Zourkova, class of 1997, Book Collecting in the Absence of Books
1996, Arthur Lamont Crooks, class of 1998, My Second Means of Egress
1995, none
1994, Jennifer Lynn Kotwicki, class of 1996, The World I have Never Seen
1993, Christopher M. Borowski, class of 1994, The Book Barn
1992, Andrew Pillion Boer, class of 1993, A Case for Comics
1991, Ronald Scott Strauss, class of 1994, An Alternative Source of creative, Energy
1990, G. Scott Clemons, class of 1990, Collector’s Progress
1989, Gavin Scott Clemons
1988, Frederick A. C. Ilchman
1987, Joseph D. Watson, class of 1987, Sir Walter Scott Collection
1986, David Ross Shaw, class of 1986
1985, Mark Robert Sheinkman
1984, Roberto Eduardo Barragan
1983, Eve Ward Strang
1982, Bret Thomas Watson
1981, Alan Galloway Thomas
1980, Daniel Baruch Frohman
1979, Ricardo Garcia
1978, Philip Andrew Hamburger
1977, Jeremy Michael Wolfe
1976, David Wood Nicholas
1975, Joseph J. Masi
1974, Linda J. Tarver
1973, Robert M. Peck
1972, Christopher C. Forbes
1971, Robert M. Peck
1970, Nelson R. Trenner
1969, John A. Gwynne, Jr.
1968, leland Dan Peterson
1967, Paul E. Sheren
1966, Daniel I.A. Cohen
1965, Peter L. Hatch
1964, Bailey Bishop
