PS I believe that the undergraduate book-collecting prize at your
sibling/neighboring university, Swarthmore, a prize which pre-dates
Bryn Mawr's by some years, and from which Bryn Mawr might very well
have gotten the idea of such a prize, still bears the name of the
fellow I have in mind.
Dave
Do you seriously not include any books by that fellow -- his name
escapes me at the moment -- from Daylesford, er Berwyn, just a few
stops down the Main Line from the lovely town of Bryn Mawr. All the
folks you mention below, with perhaps one exception that I can think
of, wrote GREAT books about collecting; none of them, however,
started an entire generation of American businessmen -- and others
-- in this book collecting game by demonstrating its amenities and
kindred affections.
Dave
PS I believe that the fellow's daughter was a
turn-of-the-20th-century Bryn Martyr and that, in her old age she
was quite a benefactor of the school.
As many of you know from Donald Farren's interesting review of the
topic of student book collecting contests, conducted on this list
about a year ago, the Bryn Mawr College Library sponsors a yearly
competition. We have a contest web page
(http://www.brynmawr.edu/Library/Docs/bookprize.html) which,
besides the rules and a list of previous winners, provides a list
of books on book collecting. Briefly, the authors included are
Ahearn, Basbanes, Belanger, Carter, Iacone, Peters, (editor), Sims,
and Stewart.
I would like to update and expand this list if useful items are
missing. What books would you recommend to a new book collector, or
to a person who might not yet realize they were collecting? I'd be
interested in your comments on the books as well as your
suggestions for additional materials.
Regards,
Marianne Hansen
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