Leab Exhibition Catalog Awards 2001

The following is a list of entries for the Katharine Kyes Leab & Daniel J. Leab American Book Prices Current Exhibition Award for 2001. All entries were evaluated by the RBMS Exhibition Awards Committee. Winning catalogs, brochures, and electronic exhibitions are marked with a double asterisk (**). Honorable mentions are marked with a single asterisk (*).

Entries for the years:


Entries for 2001: Printed Catalogs and Brochures

Ordering information appears after each catalog citation; where applicable and known, shipping and handling charges are included in the stated price. Some titles may be in limited supply or no longer available.

Atlanta History Center. Native Lands: Indians and Georgia, by Sarah H. Hill and Sue Evans Vrooman, 1999. Price: $15.00. Order from: Casey Steadman, Museum Shop Manager, Atlanta History Center, 130 West Paces Ferry Road, NW, Atlanta, GA 30305; phone: (404) 814-4076; fax: (404) 814-2041; e-mail:csteadman@atlantahistorycenter.com; http://www.atlantahistorycenter.com.

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. Goethe the Scientist, by Christa Sammons and Cyrus Hamlin, 1999. Price: $3.00, plus $1.50 S&H. Order from: Tracey Mention, Box 208240, New Haven, CT 06520-8240; phone: (203) 432-2956; fax: (203) 432-4047; e-mail:cheryl.myrup@yale.edu.

Boston College Law Library. Notable Notes: A Collection of Law Student Notebooks, by Boston College Law School's Rare Books Exhibits Committee (Karen S. Beck, Mary Sarah Bilder, Ann F. McDonald, Sharon H. O'Connor, and Joah A. Shear, 1999. Price: No longer available.

Bridwell Library, Southern Methodist University. The Helen Warren DeGolyer Triennial Exhibition and Competition 2000: Designs for "Ulysses" by American Bookbinders, eds. Eric Marshall White and Sally Key; foreword by Valerie R. Hotchkiss, 2000. Price: $15.00. Order from: Amber Sturgess, Bridwell Library, Southern Methodist University, 6005 Bishop Blvd., Dallas, TX 75275; phone: (214) 768-3483; fax: (214) 768-4295; e-mail:sturgess@mail.smu.edu.

Bridwell Library, Southern Methodist University. When Your Children Ask, You Shall Tell Them: The Art of the Passover Haggadah, by David Gilner, 2000. Price: Free. Order from: Amber Sturgess, Bridwell Library, Southern Methodist University, 6005 Bishop Blvd., Dallas, TX 75275; phone: (214) 768-3483; fax: (214) 768-4295; e-mail:sturgess@mail.smu.edu.

** de Grummond Children's Literature Collection, The University of Southern Mississippi Libraries. Curious George Comes to Hattiesburg: The Life and Work of H.A. and Margret Rey, by Dee Jones, 1999. Price: Free. Order from: Dee Jones, Box 5148, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS 39406-5148; phone: (601) 266-4349; fax: (601) 266-6269; e-mail:dee.jones@usm.edu.

Donohue Rare Book Room, Gleeson Library/Geschke Center, University of San Francisco. Expressions of the Heart: Books and Illustrations from the Donohue Rare Book Room, by John Hawk, 2000. Price: $5.00, plus $1.00 S&H. Order from: John Hawk, Gleeson Library/Geschke Center, 2130 Fulton St., San Francisco, CA 94117-1049; phone: (415) 422-2036; fax: (415) 422-2233; e-mail:hawkj@usfca.edu.

Fales Library, New York University. Facts and Fiction: The Fales Library and Special Collections at New York University, by Marvin J. Taylor and Michael Kelly, 1999. Price: $15.00. Order from Marvin J. Taylor, Fales Library, New York University, Elmer Holmes Bobst Library, Third Floor, 70 Washington Square South, New York, N.Y. 10012; phone (212) 998-2596; fax: (212) 995-4070; e-mail: marvin.taylor@nyu.edu.

The Folger Shakespeare Library. A Decade of Collecting: Celebrating Ten Years of Acquisitions, 1990-1999, ed. Richard Kuhta, 2000. Price: $25.00, plus $7.95 S&H. Order from: Folger Museum Shop, 201 East Capitol Street, SE, Washington, D.C. 20003; phone: (202) 675-0364; http://www.shakespeare-etc.org.

The Folger Shakespeare Library. Fooles and Fricassees: Food in Shakespeare's England, ed. Mary Anne Caton, 1999. Cost: $26.95, plus $7.95 S&H. Order from: Folger Museum Shop, 201 East Capitol Street, SE, Washington, D.C. 20003; phone: (202) 675-0364; http://www.shakespeare-etc.org.

The Folger Shakespeare Library. Fortune: "All is but Fortune", ed. and compiler, Leslie Thomson, 2000. Cost: $24.95, plus $7.95 S&H. Order from: Folger Museum Shop, 201 East Capitol Street, SE, Washington, D.C. 20003; phone: (202) 675-0364; http://www.shakespeare-etc.org.

Friends of the Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary. From This World to the Next: Jewish Approaches to Illness, Death and the Afterlife, by Elka Deitsch, Sharon Liberman Mintz, Wiebke M. Light, and David Wachtel, 1999. Price: $20.00, plus $5.00 S&H. Order from: Rickie Weiner, Friends of the Library, The Jewish Theological Seminary, 3080 Broadway, New York, NY, 10027; phone (212) 678-8962; fax: (212) 678-8891; e-mail: riweiner@jtsa.edu.

* The Grolier Club. The Art of Publishers' Bookbindings, 1815-1915, by Ellen K. Morris and Edward S. Levin, 2000. Price: Paperback, $37.50, plus $4.50 S&H; Cloth, $75.00, plus $4.50 S&H. Order from: William Dailey Rare Books, 8216 Melrose Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90046; phone: (323) 658-8515; fax: (323) 658-1170; e-mail: antiquare@aol.com.

The Grolier Club. Aspects of England: A Collector's Perspective, by Arthur L. Schwarz, 2000. Price: $20.00. Order from: The Veatchs Arts of the Book, P.O. Box 328, 140 Crescent St., Northampton, MA 01061; phone: (413) 584-1867; fax: (413) 584-2751; e-mail: Veatchs@veatchs.com.

** The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Memorial Library, The University of Scranton. So Fairly Bound: Fine Twentieth-Century Bookbindings and Illuminated Manuscripts from the Edward R. Leahy Collection, by Michael Knies, 2000. Price: Free. Order from: Professor Michael Knies, Weinberg Memorial Library, University of Scranton, Scranton, PA 18510; phone: (570) 941-6341; fax: (570) 941-7817; e-mail: kniesm2@scranton.edu.

The Houghton Library and Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library, Harvard University. Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750): "The Man from Whom All True Musical Wisdom Proceeded." A 250th Anniversary Exhibition, prepared by Students of Music 215r under the direction of Professor Christoph Wolff, 2000. Price: No longer available.

The Houghton Library, Harvard University. Stage, Ballroom, and Parlour: Selections from the Ruth N. and John M. Ward Collection of Music for Dance and Theatre in the Harvard Theatre Collection, by John M. Ward, Ruth Tucker, and Dennis Marnon, 2000. Price: No longer available.

The Houghton Library, Harvard University. Dept. of Printing and Graphic Arts. Thinking Editions (catalog, with separate booklist), by Anne Anninger, Ted Cronin, Effy Redman, Edward H. Hutchins, and others, 1999. Price: Free. Order from: Brenda K. Breed, Dept. of Printing & Graphic Arts, Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138; phone: (617) 495-2444; fax: (617) 495-1376; e-mail: breed@fas.harvard.edu.

The Huntington Library (Huntington Library Press). Land of Golden Dreams: California in the Gold Rush Decade, 1848-1858 by Peter J. Blodgett, 1999. Price: Paperback, $14.95; Cloth, $20.95. Order from: Huntington Library Press, 1151 Oxford Rd., San Marino, CA 91108; phone: (626) 405-2172; fax: (626) 585-0794; e-mail: booksales@huntington.org.

John J. Burns Library, Boston College. Ratio Studiorum: Jesuit Education, 1540-1773 eds. John Atteberry and John Russell, 1999. Price: Free. Order from: John Atteberry, John J. Burns Library, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467; phone: (617) 552-4861; fax: (617) 552-2465; e-mail: john.atteberry@bc.edu.

Lewis & Clark College, Aubrey R. Watzek Library. Looking Back at "Looking Backward": Collecting Edward Bellamy's Utopian Novels by Jim Kopp, 1999. Price: Free, plus $5.00 S&H. Order from: Bonnie Okamoto, Watzek Library, Lewis & Clark College, 0615 SW Palatine Hill Rd., Portland, OR 97219-7899; phone: (503) 768-7275; fax: (503) 768-7282; e-mail: okamoto@lclark.edu.

Lewis & Clark College, Aubrey R. Watzek Library. William Stafford: An Exhibit Catalog and Bibliography by Paul Merchant and Doug Erickson, 2000. Price: Free, plus $10.00 S&H. Order from: Bonnie Okamoto, Watzek Library, Lewis & Clark College, 0615 SW Palatine Hill Rd., Portland, OR 97219-7899; phone: (503) 768-7275; fax: (503) 768-7282; e-mail: okamoto@lclark.edu.

Library and Archives, National Gallery of Canada. Library and Archives Exhibition, No. 4-6 (a series, including: No. 4, Pastoral Leaves: Virgil and the "livre d'artiste" in France; No. 5, Gifts! Donations to the Library Collections; and No. 6: Research Photographs: An Introduction to the Library Collection; with French language versions also available), by various authors, 1999-2000. Price: Free. Order from: Lisa DiNoble, Library and Archives, National Gallery of Canada, 380 Sussex Drive, P.O. Box 427, Station A, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1N 9N4; phone: (613) 990-0592; fax: (613) 990-6190; e-mail: ldinoble@gallery.ca.

Mortimer Rare Book Room, Smith College; and Smith College Museum of Art. Illuminating Words: The Artist's Books of Christopher Gausby by Veronique Plesch, 1999. Price: $20.00, plus S&H. Order from: Martin Antonetti, Neilson Library, Smith College, Northampton, MA 01063; phone: (413) 585-2906; fax: (413) 585-4486; e-mail: mantonet@smith.edu.

The Office of Research and Graduate Studies, Old Dominion University; and Old Dominion University Libraries. 1999-2000 Faculty Research and Scholarly Publication Exhibit Catalogue, compiled by Amy D. Farinelli, 2000. Price: Free (if still available). Order from: Amy D. Farinelli, Library Assistant, 112 Perry Library, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA 23529-0256; phone: (757) 683-4186; fax: (757) 683-5767; e-mail: afarinel@odu.edu.

Old Dominion University Libraries, Diehn Composers Room. From Exposition to Development: The Legacy of Composers at Hampton University, by Karen Meizner, 1999. Price: Free to the first 100 libraries requesting the catalog. Order from: Karen Meizner, Special Projects Librarian, 189 Diehn Fien and Performing Arts Center, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA 23529; phone: (757) 683-4175 MWF; fax: (757) 683-4175 (start transmission when machine answers); e-mail: kmeizner@odu.edu.

Old Dominion University Libraries, Diehn Composers Room. Kaleidoscope: The Musical World of Adolphus Hailstork, by Karen Meizner, 2000. Price: Free to the first 100 libraries requesting the catalog. Order from: Karen Meizner, Special Projects Librarian, 189 Diehn Fien and Performing Arts Center, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA 23529; phone: (757) 683-4175 MWF; fax: (757) 683-4175 (start transmission when machine answers); e-mail: kmeizner@odu.edu.

Rare Books Division, The Humanities and Social Sciences Library, The New York Public Library. SEEING IS BELIEVING: 700 Years of Scientific and Medical Illustration, by Jennifer B. Lee and Miriam Mandelbaum, 1999. Price: $22.50. Order from: Michele Piper, Publications Office, The New York Public Library, 8 West 40th St., 6th Floor, New York, N.Y. 10018; phone: (212) 704-8644; fax: (212) 704-8620; e-mail: kvanwestering@nypl.org.

Robert W. Woodruff Library, Emory University. The Page is Printed: Ted Hughes, 1930-1998, by Stephen Enniss, 2000. Price: $5.00. Order from: Kathleen Carroll, Special Collections Dept., Robert W. Woodruff Library, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322; phone: (404) 727-6887; fax: (404) 727-0360; e-mail: libmkc@emory.edu.

** Robert W. Woodruff Library and The Correspondence of Samuel Beckett Project, Emory University; and Institut Memoires de l'edition contemporaine (IMEC), Paris. Word and Image: Samuel Beckett and the Visual Text, eds. Breon Mitchell and Lois Overbeck, 1999. Price: $20.00, plus S&H. Order from: Bruce Covey, Druid Hills Bookstore, 1401 Oxford Rd., Atlanta, GA 30307; phone: (404) 727-7162; fax: (404) 727-2123; e-mail: Bcovey@emory.edu.

Rosenbach Museum & Library. The Advent of Alice: A Celebration of the Carroll Centenary, by Diane Waggoner, with an essay by Donald Rankin, ed. and with selected entries by Derick Dreher, 1999. Price: $25.00, plus $5.00 S&H. Order from: Joan Watson, Rosenbach Museum & Library, 2010 DeLancey Place, Philadelphia, PA 19103; phone: (215) 732-1600, ext. 10; fax: (215) 545-7529; e-mail: jowatson@rosenbach.org.

Rosenbach Museum & Library. The Amazing Manjiro: A Board Game, by Bill Adair, 1999. Price: Free, plus S&H. Order from: Joan Watson, Rosenbach Museum & Library, 2010 DeLancey Place, Philadelphia, PA 19103; phone: (215) 732-1600, ext. 10; fax: (215) 545-7529; e-mail: jowatson@rosenbach.org.

Rosenbach Museum & Library. Nakahama Manjiro's Hyosen Kiryaku: A Companion Book, Introduction by Derick Dreher; essays by Elizabeth E. Fuller, Judith M. Guston, Fumiko Mori Halloran, and Pamela D. Winfield, 1999. Price: $30.00, plus $5.00 S&H. Order from: Joan Watson, Rosenbach Museum & Library, 2010 DeLancey Place, Philadelphia, PA 19103; phone: (215) 732-1600, ext. 10; fax: (215) 545-7529; e-mail: jowatson@rosenbach.org.

Rosenbach Museum & Library. The Rosenbach Collector's Kit, by Bill Adair, 2000. Price: Free, plus S&H. Order from: Joan Watson, Rosenbach Museum & Library, 2010 DeLancey Place, Philadelphia, PA 19103; phone: (215) 732-1600, ext. 10; fax: (215) 545-7529; e-mail: jowatson@rosenbach.org.

** Rosenbach Museum & Library. "Ulysses" in Hand: The Rosenbach Manuscript, by Michael J. Barsanti, with an introduction by Vicki Mchaffey, 2000. Price: $20.00. Order from: Joan Watson, Rosenbach Museum & Library, 2010 DeLancey Place, Philadelphia, PA 19103; phone: (215) 732-1600, ext. 10; fax: (215) 545-7529; e-mail: jowatson@rosenbach.org.

Smithsonian Institution Libraries. Frontier Photographer: Edward S. Curtis, by Betty Sharpe and William E. Baxter, 1999. Price: No Longer Available.

Smithsonian Institution Libraries. Make the Dirt Fly! Building the Panama Canal, by William Worthington, Jr., 1999. Price: No Longer Available.

The Society of the Cincinnati Library and Museum. New Jersey in the American Revolution, by Ellen McCallister Clark, Sandra L. Powers, and E.K. Hong, 1999. Price: Free (if still available). Order from: Ellen McCallister Clark, Public Services Librarian, 2118 Massachusetts Ave., NW, Washington, D.C. 20008; phone: (202) 785-2040, ext. 426; fax: (202) 785-0729; e-mail: emclark@societyofthecincinnati.org.

Special Collections & Archives, Olin Library, Wesleyan University; and Wesleyan University Press. Press On! Four Decades of Innovative Publishing at Wesleyan, by Thomas R. Radko, Suzanna Tamminen, and Suzy Taraba, 1999. Price: No longer available.

Thomas Cooper Library, University of South Carolina. John Milton & Seventeenth-Century Culture, by Patrick Scott, 2000. Price: Free. Order from: Patrick Scott, Dept. of Rare Books & Special Collections, Thomas Cooper Library, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208; phone: (803) 777-1275; fax: (803) 777-4661; e-mail: scottp@gwm.sc.edu.

Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto. All in the Golden Afternoon: The Inventions of Lewis Carroll, by Alice Moore and Richard Landon, 1999. Price: $30.00 (Can.). Order from: Darlene Kent, Robarts Library Business Office, 6th Floor, 130 St. George St., Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 1A5; phone: (416) 978-0398; fax: (416) 978-8827; e-mail: kentd@library.utoronto.ca.

Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto. As the Centuries Turn: Manuscripts and Books From 1000 to 2000, by [no name given], 2000. Price: $20.00 (Can.). Order from: Darlene Kent, Robarts Library Business Office, 6th Floor, 130 St. George St., Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 1A5; phone: (416) 978-0398; fax: (416) 978-8827; e-mail: kentd@library.utoronto.ca.

Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto. Plotting the Oceans: Dutch Sea Atlases of the Seventeenth Century, by Anne Dondertman, 2000. Price: Free. Order from: Darlene Kent, Robarts Library Business Office, 6th Floor, 130 St. George St., Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 1A5; phone: (416) 978-0398; fax: (416) 978-8827; e-mail: kentd@library.utoronto.ca.

University of Delaware Library. Forging a Collection: The Frank W. Tober Collection on Literary Forgery, by [no name given], 1999. Price: $15.00, plus $2.50 S&H. Order from: University of Delaware Library Associates, 181 S. College Ave., Morris Library, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19717-5267; phone: (302) 831-2231; fax: (302) 831-1046; e-mail: udla@udel.edu.

Utah State University Libraries Exhibitions Program.True to Form: Journal Drawings, Writing and Related Sculpture by Larry E.Elsner, by Rose M. Milovich, 1999. Price: Free, plus $1.50 S&H. Order from: Rose M. Milovich, Utah State University Libraries, 3000 Old Main Hill, Logan, UT 84322-3000; phone: (435) 797-0893; fax: (435) 797-2880; e-mail: rosmil@ngw.lib.usu.edu.


Entries for 2001: Electronic Exhibitions

Alaska and Polar Regions Department, Elmer E. Rasmuson Library, University of Alaska, Fairbanks. The Butler Brothers' Gold Rush: The Nome Album, 1900-1901, 1999. http://itdc.elmer.uaf.edu/butler

Albert Gore Research Center, Middle Tennessee State University. Reflections in Time, 1999. http://janus.mtsu.edu/Reflections/index.html

Department of Special Collections, Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas. He Who Destroyes a Good Booke, Kills Reason It Selfe, 1998. http://www.ukans.edu/~spencer/exhibits/bannedbooks/bannedbooks.html

Exhibition Program, History of Medicine Division, National Library of Medicine. Breath of Life, 1999. http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/breath/breathhome.html

** The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, The New York Public Library. Nabokov Under Glass: A Centennial Exhibition, 1999. http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/epo/nabokov/

History & Special Collections, Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library, The University of California at Los Angeles. The Relief of Pain & Suffering, 1998. http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/biomed/his/PainExhibit/

History & Special Collections, Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library, The University of California at Los Angeles. Smallpox: Inoculation, Vaccination, Eradication, 2000. http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/biomed/smallpox/

Information, Science and Technology Agency, British Columbia Archives. The BC Archives Amazing Time Machine, 1998. http://www.bcarchives.gov.bc.ca/exhibits/timemach/index.htm

Manuscripts, Special Collections, University Archives Division, University of Washington Libraries. Mount Rainier National Park: 100 Years in Paradise, 1999. http://www.lib.washington.edu/exhibits/rainier/

The Mark Twain Papers of the Bancroft Library, The University of California at Berkeley. Mark Twain at Large: His Travels Here and Abroad, 1998. http://library.berkeley.edu/BANC/Exhibits/MTP/

The Office of Research and Graduate Studies, Old Dominion University, and the Old Dominion University Libraries. Old Dominion University Libraries Faculty Publications Database, 2000. http://libstaff.lib.odu.edu/cgi-bin/facultypub/test1.cgi/

Old Dominion University Libraries, Diehn Composers Room. From Exposition to Development: The Legacy of Composers at Hampton University, 1999. http://www.lib.odu.edu/aboutlib/musiclib/exhibits/hamptonex/onlinex.html

Old Dominion University Libraries, Diehn Composers Room. Kaleidoscope: The Musical World of Adolphus Hailstork, 2000. http://www.lib.odu.edu/aboutlib/musiclib/hailstork/index.shtml/

Smithsonian Institution Libraries. Frontier Photographer: Edward S. Curtis, 2000. http://www.sil.si.edu/Exhibitions/Curtis/

Smithsonian Institution Libraries. Make the Dirt Fly!: Building the Panama Canal, 1999. http://www.sil.si.edu/Exhibitions/Make-the-Dirt-Fly/

Special Collections Department, Kansas City Public Library. Frank Lauder Autochrome Collection, 2000. http://www.kclibrary.org/sc/photos/autochromes/default.htm

Special Collections Department, Kansas City Public Library. Historical African-American Autographs from the Ramos Collection, 1998. http://www.kclibrary.org/sc/exhibits/autographs/splash.htm

Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library. All the Hoos in Hooville: 175 Years of Life at the University of Virginia, 1999. http://www.lib.virginia.edu/exhibits/hoos/

Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library. Pop Goes the Page: Movable and Mechanical Books from the Brenda Forman Collection, 2000. http://www.lib.virginia.edu/exhibits/popup/

Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library. Red, White, Blue and Brimstone: New World Literature and the American Millennium, 1999. http://www.lib.virginia.edu/exhibits/brimstone/

Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library. Sublime Anxiety: The Gothic Family and the Outsider, 1998. http://www.lib.virginia.edu/exhibits/gothic/open.html

Special Collections, Sheridan Libraries, The Johns Hopkins University. Animal, Vegetable and Mineral: Natural History Books by Ten Authors, 2000. http://naturalhistory.mse.jhu.edu

Thomas Cooper Library, University of South Carolina. Alfred Tennyson, 1999. http://www.sc.edu/library/spcoll/britlit/tenn/tenn.html

Thomas Cooper Library, University of South Carolina. Brazil: A Quincentenary Exhibit, 1999. http://www.sc.edu/library/spcoll/sccoll/brazil/brazil.html

Thomas Cooper Library, University of South Carolina. The Culture of Camellias, 2000. http://www.sc.edu/library/spcoll/nathist/camellia/camellia.html

Thomas Cooper Library, University of South Carolina. James Weldon Johnson, 1999. http://www.sc.edu/library/spcoll/amlit/johnson/johnson.html

Thomas Cooper Library, University of South Carolina. Paris Publishers of the 1920s, 2000. http://www.sc.edu/library/spcoll/amlit/paris/paris.html

Thomas Cooper Library, University of South Carolina. Trimalchio and The Great Gatsby, 2000. http://www.sc.edu/library/spcoll/amlit/trimalchio/trimalchio.html

** University of California, Berkeley. Water Resources Center Archives and Environmental Design Archives. Bridging the Bay: Bridging the Campus, 1999. http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/Exhibits/Bridge/

University of North Texas Libraries, Rare Book and Texana Collections. Victorian Bookbinding: Innovation and Extravagance, 1820-1920, 2000. http://www.library.unt.edu/rarebooks/exhibits/binding/