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    Announcing the Winners of the 2022 Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize

    by Editor Sep 30, 2022 6 minutes

    In 2017, Honey & Wax Booksellers established an annual prize for American women book collectors, aged 30 years and younger. Our goal, at the time, was to expand the popular perception of who book collectors are (and can be) by highlighting original collections built by young women, often without the knowledge or help of the rare book trade. By celebrating their achievements, we hoped to inspire potential collectors to look at their shelves differently, to identify patterns and projects, to think creatively about what aspects of the historical record they might be uniquely qualified to recognize and preserve.

    The response to this prize over the past six years has exceeded all of our expectations. The competition this year was fierce: we wish we had been able to recognize more of the ambitious collections offered for consideration. That said, we are delighted to announce the $1,000 winner of the 2022 Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize:

    WINNER

    Melanie Shi, 24, (she/her), of Flower Mound, Texas, a graduate student at the Institut des Langues et Civilisations

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