The Katharine Kyes Leab & Daniel J. Leab American Book Prices Current Exhibition Award Entries 2008
The following is a complete list of entries for the Katharine Kyes Leab & Daniel J. Leab American Book Prices Current Exhibition Award for 2008. All entries were evaluated by the RBMS Exhibition Awards Committee. 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.
- 2008 Entries: printed | electronic
- 2008 Winners
Links to lists of entries and winners for other years may be found on the RBMS Exhibition Awards Committee page.
Entries for 2008: Printed Catalogs and Brochures (winners indicated with *)
DIVISION ONE (Expensive Printed Catalogs)
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript
Library, Yale University, Rudyard Kipling: The Books I Leave Behind, by
David Alan Richards; designed by Henk van Assen - HvA Design, 2007. Hardcover,
148 pp., 80 ills., Color. Price: $30.00.Order from: Yale University Press, PO
Box 209040, New Haven, CT 06520; phone: 203-432-0960; Web: http://yalepress.yale.edu
The Boston Athenaeum, Acquired Tastes:
200 Years of Collecting for the Boston Athenaeum, by Stanley Ellis Cushing
and David B. Dearinger; designed by Howard I. Gralla, 2006. Hardcover, 384 pp.,
ca. 200 ills., Color. Price: $65.00. Order from: University Press of New
England, One Court St., Lebanon, NH 03766; phone: 800-421-1561; Web: http://www.upne.com/0-934552
John J. Burns Library of Boston College, Francis Xavier and the Jesuit Missions in the Far East, by Franco Mormando and Jill G. Thomas; designed by Atomic Design (Robert Zeleniak and Ingrid Mach), 2006. Softcover, 104 pp., 78 ills., B&W. Price: $10.00. Order from: Jill G. Thomas, Burns Library / Boston College, 140 Commonwealth Ave., Chestnut Hill, MA 02467; phone: 617-552-8839; email: Thomasef@bc.edu
The Bridwell Library, The Elizabeth Perkins Prothro Bible Collection at Bridwell Library, 1996-2006, by Elizabeth Haluska-Rausch, with Eric White; designed by Bradley Hutchinson/Digital Letterpress, 2006. Softcover, 131 pp., 66 ills., Color. Price: $34.95. Order from: Lisa Kozlowski, Bridwell Library, PO Box 75476, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX 75275-0476; phone: 214-768-3483, email: lkozlowski@smu.edu
Brigham Young University, L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Remembering World War II: Pearl Harbor and Beyond, by Bruce C. Carlson, Patricia Rushton, Robert Freeman, and Kristi Young, 2006. Soft and Hardcover, 103 pp., 66 ills., Color and B&W. Price: $22.00 (hardcover), $13.95 (softcover). Order from: Kristi Young, University Libraries, 1160 HBLL, Provo, UT 84602; phone: 801-422-6041; email: kristi_bell@byu.edu
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library, Nevermore: The Edgar Allan Poe Collection of Susan Jaffe Tane, by Susan Jaffe Tane; designed by Marquand Books, Inc., Seattle, 2006. Soft and Hardcover, 120 pp., 100 ills., Color. Price: $20.00 + $5.00 postage. Order from: Katherine Reagan, Ernest L. Stern Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts, 2B Carl A. Kroch Library, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853; phone: 607-255-3530; email: rareref@cornell.edu
Folger Shakespeare Library, Shakespeare in American Life, edited by Virginia Mason Vaughan and Alden T. Vaughan; designed by Studio A, Alexandria, VA, 2007. Softcover, 190 pp., 84 ills., Color. Price: $29.95. Order from: Barbara Jacoby, Folger Shakespeare Library, 201 East Capitol St. SE, Washington, DC 20003; phone: 202-675-0312; email: bjacoby@folger.edu
Getty Research Institute, Art, Anti-Art, Non-Art: Experimentations in the Public Sphere in Postwar Japan, 1950-1970, edited by Charles Merewether, with Rika Iezumi Hiro; designed by Catherine Lorenz, 2007. Hardcover, 160 pp., 71 ills., Color and B&W. Price: $39.95 + $5.00 s&h. Order from: Getty Publications Book Distribution Center, PO Box 49659, Los Angeles, CA 90049-0659; phone: 800-223-3431; email: pubsinfo@getty.edu; Web: www.getty/bookstore
*The Grolier Club, Illustrating the Good Life: The Pissarros' Eragny Press, 1894-1914: A Catalogue of an Exhibition of Books, Prints & Drawings Related to the Work of the Press, by Alice H. R. H. Beckwith; preface by Alan Fern; designed by Jerry Kelly, 2007. Softcover, ix, 69 pp., 40 ills., Color. Price: $40.00. Order from: Maev Brennan, The Grolier Club, 47 East 60th St., New York, NY 10022; phone: 212-838-6690; email: mbrennan@grolierclub.org
The Grolier Club, The Neale M. Albert Collection of Miniature Designer Bindings, by Priscilla Juvelis; preface by Neale M. Albert; designed by Joe Marc Freedman, 2006. Hardcover, 224 pp., 762 ills., Color. Price: $75.00. Order from: Maev Brennan, The Grolier Club, 47 East 60th St., New York, NY 10022; phone: 212-838-6690; email: mbrennan@grolierclub.org
Katonah Museum of Art, The Eric Carle Museum of the Picture Book Art, Children Should Be Seen: The Image of the Child in American Picture-Book Art, by Leonard S. Marcus, Jane Bayard Curley, and Caroline Ward; designed by Rita Marshall, 2007. Hardcover, 108 pp., 87 ills., Color. Price: $29.95. Order from: Jonni Hirsch or Gail Keene, Route 22 at Jay St., Katonah, NY 10536; phone: 914-232-9555 x0; email: frontdesk@katonahmuseum.org
North Carolina State University Libraries Special Collections Research Center, B. W. Wells: Pioneer Ecologist, edited by Thomas R. Wentworth and Monica McCormick; designed by Riggs Ward Design, 2007. Softcover, 72 pp., 71 ills., Color and B&W. Price: $15.00. Order from: Monica McCormick, NCSU Libraries, Box 7111, Raleigh, NC 27695-7111; phone: 919-513-2416; email: monica_mccormick@ncsu.edu
University of Chicago Library, Special
Collections Research Center, Printing for the Modern Age: Commerce, Craft,
and Culture in the R. R. Donnelley Archive, by Kim Coventry; foreword by
Daniel Meyer; designed by Bockos Design, Inc., 2006. Softcover, 36 pp., 47
ills., Duotone & Color. Price: $10.00. Order from: Barbara Gilbert, Special
Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library, 1100 East 57th St.,
Chicago, IL 60637; phone: 773-702-8705; email: specialcollections@lib.uchicago
University of Virginia Library—Harrison Institute and Small Special Collections Library, The Firebird and the Factory: Modern Russian Children's Books, by Kelly Miller and Margarita Nafpaktitis; designed by Riggs Ward Design, 2007. Softcover, 48 pp., 55 ills., Color. Price: Free + actual postage. Order from: Mercy Quintos, University of Virginia Library, Box 400111, Charlottesville, VA 22904-4111; phone: 434-243-8969; email: mquintos@virginia.edu
DIVISION TWO (Moderately Expensive Printed Catalogs)
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, Russian Graphic Art and the Revolution of 1905, by Kevin Repp; designed by Jo Ellen Ackerman, Bessas and Ackerman, 2006. Softcover, 10 pp., 14 ills., Color. Price: Free. Order from: Rebecca Martz, PO Box 208240, New Haven, CT 06520; phone: 203-432-2969; email: rebecca.martz@yale.edu
*Chicago Public Library, Special Collections and Preservation Division, One Book, Many Interpretations, by the Special Collections and Preservation Division, Chicago Public Library; designed by Kathryn Tutkus, 2006. Softcover, 40 pp., 51 ills., Color. Price: Free. Order from: Lesa Dowd, Special Collections and Preservation Division, 400 South State St., Chicago, IL 60605; phone: 312-747-4884; email: ldowd@chipublib.org
Denison Library, Scripps College Campus, Libraries of The Claremont Colleges, Mallarme's Coup D'Etat: Un Coup des Des, by Judd D. Hubert, in collaboration with Jackie M. Dooley; designed by Kitty Maryatt, Two Hands Press, 2007. Softcover, 72 pp., 19 ills., B&W. Price: $12.50. Order from: S&H, Scripps College Press, 1030 Columbia Ave., Claremont, CA 91711; phone: 909-607-3866; email: kmaryatt@scrippscollege.edu
The Grolier Club, From Almeloveen to Whittington: Book & Manuscript Catalogues, 1545-1995: From the Collection of George Ong, by George Ong, 2007. Softcover, 72 pp., 18 ills., Duotone. Price: $20.00. Order from: Maev Brennan, The Grolier Club, 47 East 60th St., New York, NY 10022; phone: 212-838-6690; email: mbrennan@grolierclub.org
The Grolier Club, Gotthard de Beauclair: Art and Literature through Typography and Design, by Jerry Kelly; designed by Jerry Kelly, 2006. Softcover, 48 pp., 15 ills., Color and B&W. Price: $20.00. Order from: Maev Brennan, The Grolier Club, 47 East 60th St., New York, NY 10022; phone: 212-838-6690; email: mbrennan@grolierclub.org
The Grolier Club, Political Cartoons and Caricatures: From the Collection of Michael Alexander Kahn, by Michael Alexander Kahn and Jenny E. Robb, 2007. Hardcover, 62 pp., 25 ills. Color and B&W. Price: $25.00. Order from: Maev Brennan, The Grolier Club, 47 East 60th St., New York, NY 10022; phone: 212-838-6690; email: mbrennan@grolierclub.org
Linda Hall Library of Science, Engineering & Technology, Further Out: Recent Acquisitions of Celestial Atlases, by William B. Ashworth, Jr.; designed by Jake Marshall, 2007. Softcover, 36 pp., 78 ills., Color. Price: $20.00 (as a set with Out of This World). Order from: Linda Alshouse, Linda Hall Library, 5109 Cherry St., Kansas City, MO 64110; phone: 816-926-9727; email: alshousk@lindahall.org; Web: LHL Gift Shop: http://www.lindahall.org.shop/
Linda Hall Library of Science, Engineering & Technology, Out of This World: The Golden Age of the Celestial Atlas, by William B. Ashworth, Jr.; designed by Jake Marshall, 2007. Softcover, 112 pp., 122 ills., Color. Price: $20.00 (as a set with Further Out). Order from: Linda Alshouse, Linda Hall Library, 5109 Cherry St., Kansas City, MO 64110; phone: 816-926-9727; email: alshousk@lindahall.org; Web: LHL Gift Shop: http://www.lindahall.org.shop/
Linda Hall Library of Science, Engineering & Technology, Napoleon and the Scientific Expedition to Egypt, by Bruce Bradley and William B. Ashworth, Jr.; designed by Jake Marshall, 2006. Softcover, 28 pp., 49 ills., Color. Price: $13.00. Order from: Linda Alshouse, Linda Hall Library, 5109 Cherry St., Kansas City, MO 64110; phone: 816-926-9727; email: alshousk@lindahall.org; Web: LHL Gift Shop: http://www.lindahall.org.shop/
Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library, To the Mountains of the Moon: Mapping African Exploration, 1541-1880, by John Delaney; designed by Mark Argetsinger, 2007. Softcover, 84 pp. + foldout, 51 ills., Color. Price: $20.00. Order from: John Delaney, Princeton University Library, One Washington Road, Princeton, NJ 08534; phone: 609-258-6156; email: delaney@princeton.edu
William Allan Neilson Library, Smith College & Shang Shung Institute, Tibetan Literary Arts, by Marit Cranmer; designed by Marit Cranmer and Dede Cummings, 2007. Softcover, 80 pp., 31 ills., Color and B&W. Price: $23.00. Order from: Mary Irwin, Friends of the Smith College Libraries, Neilson Library, Smith College, Northampton, MA 01063; phone: 413-585-2903; email: mirwin@email.smith.edu
Stanford University Libraries, Department of Special Collections, Charles Dickens & Show Biz, by Ralph J. Crawford and Bruce J. Crawford; designed by Jerry Kelly, 2006. Softcover, 80 pp., 102 ills., Duotone (89) & Color (13). Price: $23.00 + $5.00 shipping. Order from: Lisa Marie Hall, Dept. of Special Collections, Catalog Orders, Green Library, 557 Escondido Mall, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305; phone: 650-725-1020; email: speccollpubs@stanford.edu
Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Library, Imagine! Poets and Painters of the New York School, by William T. Lamoy, Robert S. Mattison, and Joseph McCaffrey, 2007. Softcover, 52 pp., 53 ills., Color and B&W. Price: $23.50. Order from: William T. Lamoy, Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Library, 222 Waverly Ave., Syracuse, NY 13244-2010; phone: 315-443-9752; email: wlamoy@syr.ed
The Rare Book & Manuscript Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Dante at Illinois, by Christopher D. Cook; designed by Christopher D. Cook, 2006. Softcover, v, 35 pp., 14ills., Color. Price: $10.00. Order from: Dennis Sears, The Rare Book & Manuscript Library, 346 Library (MC-522), 1408 W. Gregory Dr., Urbana, IL 61801; phone: 217-333-7242; email: dsears@uiuc.edu
Victoria University Library (Toronto), William Blake and His Contemporaries, Robert C. Brandeis; designed by Michael Clark, Montana Designs, 2006. Softcover, 36 pp., 38 ills., B&W. Price: $15.00. Order from: Ann Black, Victoria University Library, 71 Queen's Park Crescent E., Toronto, ON Canada M5S 1K7; phone: 416-585-4471; email: a.black@utoronto.ca
DIVISION THREE (Inexpensive Printed Catalogs)
Special Collections and University Archives, Rutgers University Library, Everything from A to Z: The Edward J. Bloustein Dictionary Collection, by Fernanda Perrone; designed by Valerie Addonizio, Samantha Reynolds, and Fernanda Perrone, 2007. Softcover, 33 pp., 13 ills., Color (cover) and B&W. Price: Free. Order from: Nancy Martin, Special Collections and University Archives, Rutgers University Library, 169 College Ave., New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1163; phone: 732-932-7006 x363; email: ngmartin@rci.rutgers.edu
Rare Books & Special Collections, Thomas Cooper Library, University of South Carolina, George V. Higgins: A Retrospective Exhibition, by Jeffrey Makala and Matthew J. Bruccoli, 2006. Softcover, 30 pp., 50 ills., B&W. Not For Sale
Rare Books & Special Collections, Thomas Cooper Library, University of South Carolina, Introducing the Robert J. Wickenheiser Collection of John Milton, by Patrick Scott, 2006. Softcover, 9 pp., 26 ills., Color and B&W. Not For Sale
Special Collections Library, University of Michigan, By Land, Sea & Air: Historic Works from the Transportation History Collection, by Kathleen Dow; designed by Kathleen Dow and Sarah Schaefer, 2007. Softcover, 57 pp., 31 ills., Color and B&W. Price: Free. Order from: Kathleen Dow, Special Collections Library, 7th Floor Hatcher Graduate Library, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI 48109-1205; phone: 734-764-9377; email: kdow@umich.edu
University of Southern California Libraries, 100 Artists' Books, by Tyson Gaskill and Andrew Wulf; designed by David Mellen Design, 2007. Softcover, 18 pp., unillustrated. Price: Free. Order from: Tyson Gaskill, DML 326, 3550 Trousdale Parkway, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0183; phone: 213-740-2070; email: gaskill@usc.edu
University of Southern California Libraries, The Music of Elmer Bernstein: An American Soundtrack, by Tyson Gaskill and Andrew Wulf; designed by Silvina Niepomnisczce, 2006. Softcover, 20 pp., 17 ills., B&W. Price: Free. Order from: Tyson Gaskill, DML 326, 3550 Trousdale Parkway, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0183; phone: 213-740-2070; email: gaskill@usc.edu
The University of Toledo, Ward M. Canaday Center for Special Collections, Time in a Bottle: A History of Owens-Illinois, Inc., by Barbara Floyd, Ann Bowers, and Kimberly Brownlee; designed by Liz Allen, University of Toledo Marketing and Communication Dept., 2006. Softcover, 63 pp., 55 ills., Duotone. Price: Free. Order from: Barbara Floyd, Director, Ward M. Canaday Center for Special Collections, The University of Toledo, MS#509, 2801 W. Bancroft, Toledo, OH 43606; phone: 419-530-2170; email: barbara.floyd@utoledo.edu
*Vassar College, Mapping America: 500 years of Cartographic Depictions, by Ronald Patkus, Mary Ann Cunningham, and Philippe Thibault; designed by the Office of College Relations, Vassar College, 2007. Softcover, 32 pp., 7 ills., Color. Price: Free. Order from: Ronald Patkus, Vassar College, Box 20, 124 Raymond Ave., Poughkeepsie, NY 12604; phone: 845-437-5798; email: patkus@vassar.edu
DIVISION FOUR (Brochures)
*Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, Collecting an Empire: The East India Company (1600-1900), by Ayesha Ramachandran; designed by Jo Ellen Ackerman, Bessas and Ackerman, 2006. 12 pp., 6 ills., Color. Price: Free. Order from: Rebecca Martz, PO Box 208240, New Haven, CT 06520; phone: 203-432-2969; email: rebecca.martz@yale.edu
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, Making No Compromise: Margaret Anderson and The Little Review, by Nancy Kuhl; designed by Megan Mangum - Words That Work, 2006. 12 pp., 6 ills., B&W. Price: Free. Order from: Rebecca Martz, PO Box 208240, New Haven, CT 06520; phone: 203-432-2969; email: rebecca.martz@yale.edu
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, The Perfect Thriller: Frederick Knott and Dial M for Murder, by Timothy Young; designed by Megan Mangum - Words That Work, 2007. 12 pp., 6 ills., B&W. Price: Free. Order from: Rebecca Martz, PO Box 208240, New Haven, CT 06520; phone: 203-432-2969; email: rebecca.martz@yale.edu
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, World's Fairs and the Landscape of the Modern Metropolis, by Kevin Repp; designed by Jo Ellen Ackerman, Bessas and Ackerman, 2007. 4 pp., 6 ills., Color and B&W. Price: Free. Order from: Rebecca Martz, PO Box 208240, New Haven, CT 06520; phone: 203-432-2969; email: rebecca.martz@yale.edu
Getty Research Institute, Exhibitions, Art, Anti-Art, Non-Art: Experimentations in the Public Sphere in Postwar Japan 1950-1970, by Charles Merewether and Rika Iezumi Hiro; designed by Patrick Ferguson and Emily Morishita, 2007. 3 pp., 6 ills., Color and B&W. Price: Free. Order from: Barbara Anderson, Getty Research Institute, 1200 Getty Center Dr., Suite 1100, Los Angeles, CA 90049; phone: 310-447-7447; email: banderson@getty.edu
Getty Research Institute, Exhibitions, Evidence of Movement, by Glenn Phillips; designed by Michael Lira, 2007. 4 pp. + insert (2 p.), 6 ills., B&W. Price: Free. Order from: Barbara Anderson, Getty Research Institute, 1200 Getty Center Dr., Suite 1100, Los Angeles, CA 90049; phone: 310-447-7447; email: banderson@getty.edu
Johns Hopkins University, Sheridan Libraries, Yet Another One! H. L. Mencken, by Cynthia Requardt, 2006. 2 pp., 8 ills., B&W. Price: Free. Order from: Pamela Higgins, Sheridan Libraries, 3400 North Charles St., Baltimore, MD 21218; phone: 410-516-8337; email: pamela.higgins@jhu.edu
Pritzker Military Library, The Art of
Arthur Ross, by Ryan Yantis and Theresa A. R. Embrey; designed by Leighton
J. Shell, 2007. 4 pp., 7 ills., Color. Price: $2.00. Order from: Mary Spurr,
Deputy Director, Pritzker Military Library, 610 N. Fairbanks Ct., 2nd Floor,
Chicago, IL 60611; phone: 312-587-0234; email: mspurr@pritzkermilitarylibrary
Pritzker Military Library, Steve
Mumford: Drawn to War, by Ryan Yantis, Theresa A. R. Embrey, and Andrew
Edeker; designed by Leighton J. Shell, 2007. 3 pp., 15 ills., Color. Price:
$2.00. Order from: Mary Spurr, Deputy Director, Pritzker Military Library, 610
N. Fairbanks Ct., 2nd Floor, Chicago, IL 60611; phone: 312-587-0234; email: mspurr@pritzkermilitarylibrary
Vassar College, Bernard Shaw: Portraits and Portrayals, by Ronald Patkus and Colton Johnson; designed by Office of College Relations, Vassar College, 2006. 10 pp., 5 ills. Color. Price: Free. Order from: Ronald Patkus, Vassar College Box 20, 124 Raymond Ave., Poughkeepsie, NY 12604; phone: 845-437-5798; email: patkus@vassar.edu
Entries for 2008: Electronic Exhibitions (Winner indicated with *)
DIVISION FIVE (Electronic Exhibitions)
The Bridwell Library, Highlights of
the Elizabeth Perkins Prothro Bible Collection at Bridwell Library,
1996-2006, Elizabeth Haluska-Rausch, curator and designer, 2006
http://www.smu.edu/bridwell
The Bridwell Library, Peter Schoeffer:
Printer of Mainz, at Bridwell Library, Eric White, curator; Elizabeth
Haluska-Rausch, designer, 2007
http://www.smu.edu/bridwell
Brooklyn College Library, Brooklyn
College Library Art Collection, by Prof. Miriam Deutch and Prof. Jill
Cirasella, 2007
http://library.brooklyn.cuny
Division of Rare and Manuscript
Collections, Cornell University Library, Nevermore: The Edgar Allan Poe
Collection of Susan Jaffe Tane, Susan Jaffe Tane and Katherine Reagan,
curators; Ken Williams, designer, 2006
http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
The Library Company of Philadelphia,
Benjamin Franklin: Writer and Printer, James N. Green and Peter
Stallybrass, curators; Nicole Scalessa, designer, 2006
http://www.librarycompany.org
*North Carolina State University Libraries
Special Collections Research Center, B. W. Wells, Pioneer Ecologist,
Kevin Schlesier, curator; Amy Rudersdorf and Riggs Ward Design, designers,
2007
http://www.lib.ncsu.edu
Department of Rare Books and Special
Collections, Princeton University Library, To the Mountains of the Moon:
Mapping African Exploration, 1541-1880, John Delaney, curator and designer,
2007
http://libweb5.princeton.edu
Pritzker Military Library, The
Pritzker Military Library Presents: Drawn to War, James N. Pritzker, Edward
Tracy, Ryan Yantis, Andrew Edeker, Theresa A.R. Embrey, Leighton J. Shell,
curators; Troy Perkins, webpage; David M. Cannek, director and original music,
webcast, 2007
http://www.pritzkermilitarylibr
Rare Books & Special Collections,
Thomas Cooper Library, University of South Carolina, The Man Who Invented
Christmas: Charles Dickens & A Christmas Carol, Patrick Scott, curator;
Zella Hilton, designer, 2006
http://www.sc.edu/library
University at Buffalo, The State
University of New York at Buffalo, Thoroughly Modern Meiko: The Adventures of
Muriel Orr-Ewing, Jessica Tanny, curator and designer, 2007
http://ublib.buffalo.edu
University of California, Riverside
Libraries, The B. Traven Collections at UC Riverside Libraries, Heidi L.
Hutchinson, curator and designer, 2007
http://library.ucr.edu/?view
University of California, Riverside
Libraries, Citrus Experiment Station Centennial Exhibition, Heidi L.
Hutchinson, curator and designer, 2007
http://library.ucr.edu/?view
University of Delaware, The Animal
Kingdom: Six Centuries of Zoological Illustrations, Iris Snyder, curator and
designer, 2007
http://www.lib.udel.edu/ud
University of Delaware, From Verne to
Vonnegut: A Century of Science Fiction, Iris Snyder, curator and designer,
2006
http://www.lib.udel.edu/ud