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Student Book Collecting Competition Winners

1969 1st Not awarded
  2nd Nicholas K. Westbrook 1971 "Strive and Succeed: Creed of a Guilded New Age—A collection of Horatio Alger, Jr. and the American Dream"
  3rd William A. Doubleday 1972 "Western Massachusetts Local History"
1970 1st Not awarded
  2nd Manuel Michael Urrizola, Jr. 1972 "A Collection of Atlases"
  3rd Not awarded
1971 Van Nostrand Nicholas K. Westbrook 1971 "Vinland: A Collection of Materials Relating to the Norse Discovery of America Before Columbus"
  1st Not awarded
  2nd Ralph J. Benko 1974 "Pre-1935 Science Fiction"
  3rd Stephen N. Keith 1973 "The Poetry of the Black Creative Renaissance II"
1972 Van Nostrand Not awarded
  1st & 2nd combined & divided equally Brian E. Lebowitz 1972 "Mysteries of Agatha Christie"
Stephen S. Smith 1973 "A Collection of the Works of W. Somerset Maugham"
  3rd Bernard E. Barbaor 1972 "An African Studies Library"
1973 Van Nostrand Not awarded
  1st & 2nd combined & divided equally Mark H. Lyons 1976 "A Collection by and about James Joyce"
John D. French 1975 "Radical Pamphlets Collection"
  3rd Henry-Jean F. Servat (special student from France) "Remembrance of Stars Past"
1974 Van Nostrand Not awarded
  1st Adam J. Apt 1977 "History of Astronomy"
  2nd Terry A. Pollock 1977 "The Fathers of the Beat Era in Literature"
  3rd Ronald H. Ware 1976 "Psycho-History: Freud and the Psychoanalytical Movement"
1975 Van Nostrand Richard A Linenthal 1978 "The Bible: Manuscripts, Early Editions, Reference Books"
  1st, tied, shared Charles S. Holmes 1975 "Charles M. Schultz"
Michael L. Meyer 1978 "The California School of Conceptual Art"
  2nd & 3rd combined & divided equally Gregory A. Finck 1977 "The African Experience in the Old and New World"
Michael Stone 1975 "Economics and Ethno-Botany"
Ronald H. Ware 1976 "Principles of Architectural History"
1976 Van Nostrand Richard A. Linenthal 1978"Early Printing: Examples from Europe, England, and America together with a Collection of Reference Books"
  1st Daniel A. Cohen 1979 "A Selection of 36 Illustrated Children's Books Printed Between 1825 and 1875"
  2nd Naoki Onishi 1976 "A Bibliography on Milton"
  3rd Jonas Pontusson 1978 "Left-Wing Politics in Contemporary France"
1977 Van Nostrand Not awarded
  1st Daniel A. Cohen 1979 "The Children's Books of McLoughlin Brothers, and Their Predecessors, circa 1840 - circa 1875"
  2nd Michael L. Meyer 1978 "The Soviet Legal System"
  3rd Marshall B. Reinsdorf 1977 "Religion as a Social and as a Personal Phenomenon"
1978 Van Nostrand Not awarded
  1st Not awarded
  2nd Harrison F. Skeele 1978 "A Collection of Books Specifically about or Relevant to Christianity"
  3rd Not awarded
1979 Van Nostrand Not awarded
  1st Joseph K. Osborn 1981 "The Joseph H. K. Osborn Steam, Trains, and Rails Collection"
  2nd Craig Foster 1980 "A Collection on Military Strategy Emphasizing World War II"
  3rd Kurt Schwarz 1979 "The Classics Tradition in Social and Political Thought from Marx to the Present"
1980 Van Nostrand Not awarded
  1st Dan Freidus 1982 "A Collection of Books and Other Material on Numismatics of the United States and Numismatists of the United States"
  2nd Not awarded
  3rd Not awarded
1981 Van Nostrand Not awarded
  1st Cait Murphy 1983 "A Collection of Arthur Conan Doyle's Writings and of Sherlockania"
  2nd & 3rd combined & divided equally Karen Bizier "A Cookery Collection with Emphasis on Regional Virginia"
Andrew John Delaney "Architecture and Urban Planning"
1982 Van Nostrand Dan Friedus 1982 "A Collection of Books and Ephemera on U.S. Numismatics"
  1st Not awarded
  2nd Cait Murphy 1983 "Ireland and the Irish"
1983 Van Nostrand Not awarded
  1st & 2nd combined & divided equally Bill Frymoyer 1983 "An Instruction to East Africa"
Kevin Kreiger 1984 "Twentieth-Century Painting: the Contemporary Poets and their Predecessors"
  3rd Matthew Riley 1983 "Hunting with Horses and Hounds"
1984 Van Nostrand Not awarded
  1st Not awarded
  2nd & 3rd combined & divided equally James D. Ferrari 1986 "Transcendentalism, Existentialism, Science and Mysticism, and the Man in Search of Himself"
Matthew Corcoran 1984 "A Collection of Greek Literature, mostly in translation"
1985 Van Nostrand Not awarded
  1st Rachel Wilfert 1988 "Illustrated Children's Books"
  2nd & 3rd combined & divided equally Sarah Kendall 1985 "Women of the Old West"
Christopher Davis McKenna 1987 "Model Soldiers"
1986 Van Nostrand Not awarded
  1st & 2nd combined & divided equally Maria M. Farland 1988 "The Social and Intellectual History of Massachusetts"
Daniel Buchen 1989 "A Collection of Works by and about James Joyce"
1987 Van Nostrand Not awarded
  1st John Wood Sweet 1988 "Some Books about Concord, Massachusetts"
  2nd Karim A. Shariff 1988 "An Africa Collection emphasizing Tanzania and East Africa"
  3rd Daniel Buchen 1989 "A Preface to a Wallace Stevens Collection"
1988 Van Nostrand Not awarded
  1st Christine Pfaelzer 1988 "A Small Collection of Books on the Variety of the Dream Experience"
  2nd Ari Juels 1991 "A Collection Chiefly of Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Editions of the Classics"
  3rd Timothy Wilkins 1991 "Poets, Mystics, and Social Change"
1989 Van Nostrand Not awarded
  1st & 2nd combined & divided equally Mark Alschuler 1990 "A Howard R. Garis Collection of Uncle Wiggily Stories"
Timothy Wilkins 1991 "Poets, Mystics, and Social Change"
  3rd Not awarded
1990 Van Nostrand Paul Winke 1990 "A Collection on Blackjack"
  1st Angus W. McDonald, III 1990 "An International Collection of Comparative Philosophy"
  2nd Will Harris 1993 "A Collection of the Works of the William Faulkner"
  3rd Not awarded
1991 Van Nostrand Andrew Durbin 1993 "Covered Bridges: A Book Collection"
  1st David Longshore 1993 "Oceanic History"
  2nd Tyler S. Wick 1993 "Fly Fishing"
  3rd Owen Steans 1994, Pascual Benito 1994, and Douglas Johnson 1994 "A Collection of Books by Dr. Seuss (Theodore S. Geisel)"
1992 Van Nostrand Antoine Boisvert 1992 "Books by and about J.R.R. Tolkein"
  1st Eric Kramer 1993 "Horticulture and Landscape Design as an American Art"
  2nd Bryant Rousseau 1992 "A Key West Book Collection"
  3rd tied, shared James Zuffoletti 1992 "A Collection of Books on Obscurities"
Michael J. Mercurio 1992 "A Collection of Stephen King Stories"
1993 Van Nostrand Alissa Goldman 1994 "Autographed Books for Children, a Collection"
  1st Kathleen S. Neaves 1993 "A Collection of Books on Ballet"
  2nd Kevin Gray Carr 1996 "A Collection of Books on the Martial Arts"
  3rd Not awarded
1994 Van Nostrand Not awarded
  1st, tied Rose Rejois 1994 "A collection of books on Haiti"
Val Vinokurov 1994 "A collection of Russian children's books"
  2nd & 3rd combined & divided equally Kevin Gray Carr 1996 "A collection of American Zen literature"
Michael Kolodner 1996 "A collection of Middle Eastern studies"
1995 Van Nostrand Hugh J. Rappaport 1995 "A collection of the works of the poet Charles Simic"
  1st Jonathan D. Haddad 1995 "A collection of vintage paperback mysteries with emphasis on cover art"
  2nd, tied Craig Kolodziej 1996 "A collection of works by and relating to Theodore Roosevelt"
Brian Meacham 1997 "A collection on Amherst College and the Town of Amherst"
  3rd Malgorzata Krasowska 1996 "A collection of works (in three languages) by and about Joseph Brodsky"
1997 Van Nostrand Justin T. Turner 1999E "A collection of the science fiction writer Philip K. Dick"
  1st

Jonathan J. Bernardi 1998 "A collection titled 'Dystopia: Aesthetic Depersonalization in Pursuit of Monumentality'"

  2nd & 3rd, tied

Jared Hertzberg 1998E "A collection of political and satirical cartoons"
Brian Meacham 1997 "A collection of Tintin cartoons of Herge"

1998 Van Nostrand Gene Alexeyev 2000 "A collection of the works of Vladimir Nabokov in English and Russian"
  1st & 2nd, tied Hilary Whitman Mead 1998 "A collection of the editions of Winnie the Pooh in many different languages"
Joshua Wolff 1998 "A collection of works on the American Civil War"
  3rd James Hunter 2000 "A collection of science fiction short stories"
 
The Frederick S. Lane 1936 Student Book Collecting Competition
(The Competition was so named in 1999)
 
1999 1st, tied Alexis Salas 2000 "An art book collection titled 'The Revolutionary Aesthetic of Beautified Pain'"
Andrew Sloat 1999 "A collection dealing with the history and practice of graphic design"
  2nd Not awarded
  3rd Lauren Groff 2000 "A collection of works by Sir Walter Scott"
2000 1st, tied Nicole Marti 2000 "A collection of Chilean literature"
Shira Rubin 2001 "A collection dealing with women's poetry: dealing with difference"
  2nd Not awarded
  3rd Not awarded
2001 Lane Prize Bilal Ahran Malik 2001 "'He who knows himself, knows his Lord,' a collection of books on Islam"
  1st Umit S. Dhuga 2001 "A collection of works by T. S. Eliot"
  2nd Catherine Itaya 2004 "A collection titled 'Timothy McSweeney's Is Written with Blood'"
2002 Lane Prize Not awarded
  1st Ali Hassan 2005 "A collection of books on learning languages"
  2nd Matthew Jason Moses 2002 "The Gastronomical Me: A Narrative of A Chaotically Constructed Self (as told through Food, Text & Memory)"
  3rd Kate Hamill 2003 "A Small Collection of Works Illustrated by Barry Moser"
2003 Lane Prize Not awarded
  1st Benjamin Baum 2003 "Mandell-Baum Collection of Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary and the Author's Other Fictional Works"
  2nd Diana Cappiello 2005 "Poetry for the Common Man 1850-1930"
  3rd Jonathan Schneider 2004E "Spanish Works in the Original and Translation"
2004 Lane Prize William Miglore 2006 "Pop Stars, Superheroes, Darwinian Glories: Metaphors, Overblown, for some Association Copies"
  1st, tied Daniel Altschuler 2004 "Afro-Cuban Religiosity and Its Place in Cuban Culture"
Justin Turner 2004 "Éléments de mathématique par Nicolas Bourbaki: A Collection of French Mathematical Texts"
  2nd Matthew Langione 2005 "A Collection of Early 20th Century Authors with a Primary Focus on John Steinbeck"
  3rd Alison Rung 2005 "They Don't Need Jackets Because They're Not in Russian: A Collection of Imperfect First Edition Nabokov"
2005 Lane Prize William Miglore 2006 "Truman Capote"
  1st Shurjendu Dutt-Mazumdar 2007 "Hinduism: Resolved Into One"
  2nd, tied Diana Cappiello 2005 "Russian Youth Literature"
Conor Clarke 2007 "Susan Sontag"
  3rd, tied Lucia Cucu 2005 "Fantasy Books Dealing with Sexual Orientation and Unconventional Gender Roles"
Matthew Langione 2005 "John Steinbeck"
2006 Lane Prize William Miglore 2006 "Ray Bradbury: Children and Animals "
  1st Julia Powers 2006 "A is for Anchor: Edward Gorey's Anchor Paperback Covers"
  2nd Not awarded
  3rd Not awarded

 

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