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Laird Wilcox Wins Book Award
A new precedent was established yesterday when this year's Taylor Book Awards winners were announced.
Two contestants tied for second place and a collection of political pamphlets took the first place award.
LAIRD WILCOX, Lawrence freshman, won the first place award for his collection titled "Ephemeral Political Literature in the United States."
The two second place winners were Jerry Ulrich, Lawrence senior, for his collection titled "Varieties of Intellectual History," and Lawrence Morgan, Lawrence senior, whose collection was titled "A Listener's Library of Books on Music."
Wilcox received a check for $100,
and Ulrich and Morgan each received
checks for $35.
Henry Snyder, instructor of history, who announced the three winners, explained that the second place award was tied because "it was difficult to make a choice . . all of them have qualities which make them desirable."
THE JUDGES, ETHNA Vincent, a Toneka book collector; Errol Harris, professor of philosophy, and Snyder, felt that the most impressive qualities of the collections chosen were their range of topics and the manner in which the books were collected, Spyder said.
Following the awards, an informal lecture was given by a book collector and Dartmouth professor of comparative literature. Herbert Faulkner West, who spoke extemporaneously on the pleasures and values of book collecting.
The awards were presented to the winners by Mrs. Elizabeth Taylor, the establisher and benefactress of the annual competition.
Prof. West, who referred to himself as an "impecunious amateur" collector, felt one of the chief pleasures and values of book collecting is in the contact made with other collectors, dealers, and writers.
Thursday, April 23, 1964
DURING HIS CAREER, West has established friendships with such literary personages as Robert Frost, H. L. Mencken, and Henry Miller. He almost got to meet Joseph Conrad, but Conrad died in England shortly before West arrived.
Books, West feels, "make you a more civilized person." As prime requisites for collecting, "all you need is a love for the chase, and a little bit of money," he said.
For aspiring collectors who don't have a lot of ready capital, West recmanded collecting books by leser-known authors, rather than major authors. As an example of the value placed on rare works by major authors, West referred to Robert Frost's first book, "A Boy's Will," which originally sold for five shillings when it was published twenty years ago, but is now worth $500 a copy.
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lection of Henry L. Mencken, part of which is on display in the foyer of Watson Library, as "remarkably complete."
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West concluded his remarks by partially attributing his happy life to the pleasures he has received from book collecting.
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