
2023-24: Emily Clarke, 'Georgette Heyer (1902-74) and the invention of the Regency'
2022-23: Toma-Jin Morikawa-Fouquet, 'The polymathic writings of Hirano Imao (1900-1986)'
2021-22: Joseph Bills, 'llustrated texts as living objects in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Japan', also joint winner of the ABA National Book Collecting Prize 2022
2020-21: Gabriel Duckels, 'Children's & Young Adult Literature and HIV/AIDS', also featured in Fine Books Magazine
2019-20: Joe Shaugnessy (Williams), 'Literature & Empire, 1890-1955'
2018-19: Matthias Gjesdal-Hammer, 'Contemporary Photobooks'
2017-18: Nikita Makarchev, '2x2=5:Protests and Experiments in Revolution-era Russian Poetry'
2016-17: Anthony Wilder Wohns, 'Exploring Remotest Asia'
2015-16: Edwin Rose, 'Popular natural history and natural philosophy of the eighteenth century’
2014-15: Tom Zille, 'German and English Literature of the Inter-War Period'
2013-14: Christopher White, 'Eugenics in the twentieth century'
2012-13: Chloe Stopa-Hunt, 'C’est la meme folie: Ménage Desmoulins in literature and history'
2011-12: Alessandro Bianchi, 'Japanese popular publications before the twentieth century'
2010-11: Basie Bales Gitlin, 'Canvassing books'
2009-10: Ian Heames, 'Small press poetry, mostly British'
2008-9: Boris Jardine, 'Modernism in print'
2007-8: Daniel Hagon, 'Primary sources in the history of mathematics and physics'
2006-7: David Butterfield, 'Landmarks of Classical scholarship'