Tag: bibliophilia

An exchange student from Mexico City is the newest winner of the Bancroft Library’s Hill-Shumate Book Collecting Prize, given annually to an undergraduate. History student and bibliophile Luciano Concheiro San Vicente, 20, owns a collection of more than 5,000 items — from 19th-century cookbooks and monumental histories to early 20th-century government pamphlets — that help illuminate what it means to “be Mexican.”