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Jessica Kahan\u2019s collection of romance novels from\u00a0the Jazz age and Depression era.<\/p><\/div>\n

Imagine a book collector, a person who has devoted their life\u00a0to seeking out rare tomes\u00a0in dusty shops, who arranges their finds, these\u00a0prized possessions, purposefully and carefully, on a shelf just out of reach. Chances are you will have imagined a man, perhaps one with graying hair and spectacles. And a pipe.<\/p>\n

Heather O\u2019Donnell and Rebecca Romney at\u00a0Honey & Wax Booksellers, in Brooklyn, are hoping to\u00a0broaden our imaginative capabilities.\u00a0This summer, they announced their first annual book-collecting prize<\/a>, open to women under thirty. O\u2019Donnell and Romney had\u00a0observed\u00a0that although\u00a0the young women who entered their store were passionate about their collections, they rarely referred to themselves as collectors. Their hope is to \u201cencourage young women who are actively collecting books to own and share that part of their lives, and to think strategically about the future of their collections.\u201d An advisor warned them to expect\u00a0eight to ten submissions, a dozen at most. When the dust had settled, they\u2019d received forty-eight essays, from young women, age fifteen to thirty, around the country, all with accompanying bibliographies and wish lists.<\/p>\n

We are pleased to unveil their first winner, who will receive\u00a0a thousand dollars, as well as five honorable mentions, who will each receive two hundred dollars.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Winner:<\/h2>\n

<\/h3>\n

Jessica Kahan: Romance Novels of the Jazz Age and Depression Eras<\/strong><\/h3>\n

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The winner of the first annual Honey & Wax book-collecting prize is Jessica Kahan, twenty-nine, a public librarian in Ohio. Kahan has collected some three hundred popular American romance novels of the 1920s and 1930s, all in their sensational original dust jackets, with an eye to creating a bibliography of fiction often dismissed as frivolous. Aiming \u201cto capture women\u2019s experiences through the lens of romance novels in the decades between women\u2019s suffrage and World War II,\u201d Kahan pays particular attention to the rise of the modern career woman as an archetype, and to the way historical events (the radio age, Prohibition, the Olympics) are reflected in the genre. Highlights of the collection are featured on Kahan\u2019s blog, thegoodbadbook<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Honey & Wax says, \u201cWe loved this collection\u2019s breadth and depth. Kahan\u2019s refusal to condescend to her subject helps us see how a genre famous for its rigid conventions bends to reflect the changing lives of American women.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Honorable Mentions:<\/h2>\n

Nora Benedict: The Rise of Modernist Publishing in Buenos Aires<\/h3>\n

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Nora Benedict, twenty-nine, a postdoctoral fellow at Princeton, began by collecting the works of the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges, then expanded her scope to include the independent Buenos Aires publishing houses that employed Borges, including Editorial Losada, which published his translation of Kafka, and Victoria Ocampo\u2019s Editorial Sur, which published his translation of Virginia Woolf.\u00a0Benedict is currently assembling a complete run of Editorial Sur publications.<\/p>\n

Honey & Wax says, \u201cWe admired Benedict\u2019s turn from a single-author collection to one with historical research value as she tracked down obscure Argentine publisher\u2019s catalogs and reconstructed the print history of Borges\u2019s circle.\u201d<\/p>\n

Caitlin Downey: Documenting the Geisha of Kyoto, 1970\u20132000<\/h3>\n

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Caitlin Downey, twenty-two, a senior at Edgewood College in Wisconsin,\u00a0has collected almost a hundred and fifty\u00a0original theater programs from the\u00a0odori,<\/em>\u00a0the yearly public dance performances staged by the\u00a0geisha\u00a0of Kyoto, as well as books on the subject. Her collection, pursued online and shared with a virtual community of\u00a0geisha\u00a0<\/em>fans, participates in a collective historical project in which fans share primary sources to reconstruct a landscape of now-lost okiya<\/em>\u00a0(geisha lodging houses) <\/em>and teahouses.<\/p>\n

Honey & Wax says, \u201cWe were struck by Downey\u2019s disciplined pursuit of material researched and purchased almost entirely online, a model of collecting unknown a generation ago, and by her focus on printed ephemera, a strong trend among young collectors.”<\/p>\n

Sherese Francis: J. Expressions: Work from the Literary Community of Southeast Queens<\/h3>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Sherese Francis, twenty-seven, owner of J.\u00a0Expressions Pop-up Bookshop and Mobile Library<\/a>, is mindful of the redevelopment proposed for her neighborhood in Queens. Francis collects books by local writers, most of color, many of whom are self-published or published by independent presses, in an effort \u201cto highlight and preserve some aspect of the communities that already exist here or existed here before.\u201d Her collection includes chapbooks, zines, artists\u2019 books, memoirs, novels, and poetry, all by writers from Queens, and shared with the community at local literary events.<\/p>\n

Honey & Wax says, \u201cWe admired Francis\u2019s commitment to preserving the books being produced in her immediate time and place. Her focused \u2018archive of the now\u2019 provides a local model of collecting we\u2019d like to see practiced all over the country.\u201d<\/p>\n

Samantha Montano: Safeguarding the History of Disasters<\/h3>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Samantha Montano, twenty-seven, is an expert in emergency management. As a professional \u201cdisasterologist,\u201d Montano collects firsthand accounts of disasters\u2014fires, floods, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions\u2014from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, accounts that predate the academic discipline of emergency management. She aims to preserve an increasingly relevant piece of the historical record in a time of rapid climate change: \u201cWe do not want the stories of how people have survived disasters to be a secret. We want that information to be shared.\u201d<\/p>\n

Honey & Wax says, \u201cWe appreciated the originality and urgency of Montano\u2019s project, which brings together a group of largely forgotten primary sources. It\u00a0was one of a number of collections that\u00a0tackled environmental and ecological questions.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ashley Rose Young: Nourishing Networks: Provisioning New Orleans in the Atlantic World<\/h3>\n

\"\"<\/a>Ashley Rose Young, twenty-nine, a doctoral candidate in history at Duke, began by collecting historic Creole cookbooks, then expanded her focus to the food markets of the port of New Orleans, a local economy historically dominated by African Americans and immigrants. Her turn to the marketplace inspired Young to collect novels, travel narratives, and printed ephemera, and to launch a new digital project,\u00a0Sound Bytes: Historic Street Food Cries of New Orleans.<\/em><\/p>\n

Honey & Wax says, \u201cWe enjoyed the unfolding narrative of this collection, as Young\u2019s original interest in regional cookbooks laid the foundation for a more wide-ranging exploration of the cultural and culinary politics of New Orleans.\u201d<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Honey & Wax would like to thank the Antiquarian Booksellers\u2019 Association of America, for offering all contestants free admission to the three major American antiquarian book fairs in 2018, and the editors of\u00a0<\/em>Fine Books and\u00a0Collections,\u00a0for sending each contestant a copy of the latest print issue. Now on to\u00a0next year<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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