Annette Campbell-White

Beyond Market Value: A Memoir of Book Collecting and the World of Venture Capital

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A fascinating memoir by a passionate bibliophile and pioneering venture capitalist.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Briscoe Ctr for Amer History Ut-Austin
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. September 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 257mm x 183mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 658g
• ISBN-13: 9781477319352
• ISBN-10: 1477319352
• Artikelnr.: 56971151

Autorenporträt

By Annette Campbell-White

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue: Random Reflections on Collecting and Collectors
An Auction at Sotheby’s
First Acquisition: “A Song for Simeon”
Books of Childhood
Palgrave’s Golden Treasury
Growing Up
Early Collecting
California and Collecting Detours
Finding a Focus
Ulysses
The Importance of Cyril Connolly’s Modern Movement List
Beginning the Connolly Collection
Venture Capital Investing
Books, Book Dealers, and Literary Associations
The French Modern Movement: Du côté de chez Swann
Friends of Cyril Connolly: Sir Harold Acton
Literary High Spots, The Great Gatsby, and the Modern Book as Currency
Buying at Auction: The Anthony Hobson Sale
Terre des hommes: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The Turn of the Century and the First Dot-Com Bubble
French Bibliomania and the Rise and Fall of the Société Aristophil
Acceleration: Completion of the Connolly List
Hubris
The Sale
The End of the World?
New Horizons
Epilogue: The Point of It All
Appendix
Index