The Katharine Kyes Leab & Daniel J. Leab American Book Prices Current Exhibition Award Winners 2006

The Exhibition Awards Committee of the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries is pleased to announce the following winners of the 2006 Katharine Kyes Leab & Daniel J. Leab "American Books Prices Current" Exhibition Awards.  An awards ceremony was held at the RBMS program at the ALA Conference in New Orleans, Louisiana, Sunday, June 25, 2006.

Winner Division One - Expensive Catalogs

Library of Congress, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, A Heavenly Craft: The Woodcut in Early Printed Books, by Daniel De Simone, with essays by Paul Needham, Lilian Armstrong, and Daniela Laube, 2004.

Winner Division Two - Moderately Expensive Catalogs

Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Library, "Don't pay any attention to him. He's 90% water.": The Cartooning Career of Boris Drucker, by Johanna Drucker and Christian Dupont, 2005.

Winner Division Three - Inexpensive Catalogs

The Grolier Club, City Lights Pocket Poets Series, 1955-2005: From the collection of Donald A. Heneghan, by Donald A. Heneghan, 2005.

Winner Division Four - Brochures

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, J. M. Barrie and Peter Pan: A children's guide, by Timothy G. Young, 2005.

Winner Division Five - Electronic Exhibitions

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library, From Dublin to Ithaca: Cornell's James Joyce Collection, http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/joyce.

A complete list of entries for the 2006 competition with contact and ordering/access information, as well as lists of entries and winners for other years may be found on the RBMS Exhibition Awards Committee page.