Win A Bookseller winners
Today, we are announcing the winners of our Win A Bookseller contests. Huge thanks to everyone who entered the two contests. Congratulations to Stephen M Matyas from Virginia, who won our AbeBooks.com contest. Stephen collects books containing the Declaration of Independence and his collection has been put together with passion and care. You can read his essay here.
Alan Hewer from Sussex who won our UK competition. Alan collects books about the Great War and illustrated Victorian books from 1860s. We’ll put Alan’s essay online soon. The runners up for the AbeBooks.com contest were Wayne Valero, Albert Romkema, Glen Goodknight, Lyric Ajero, and Joanne Thompson - they will all receive a year-long subscription to Fine Books & Collections magazine. The runners up for the AbeBooks.co.uk contest were Ray Wenden, David Green, Steve Rudge, John Riddle and Robert Bevan-Jones. They will all receive a year-long subscription to Rare Book Review magazine. We’ll be putting more profiles online next week.
Both Stephen and Alan win a one-day appraisal of their collection by an AbeBooks seller. I spent many long hours reading the entries. There were many incredible essays and it was tough to process to whittle down the entries to the contenders. Once again, thanks to everyone who entered.
The whole Win a Bookseller thing has inspired us to launch a new section dedicated to collectors. Here are four great profiles of collectors who entered the contest.
If you’d like to be profiled, then we’d love to hear about your collection.
