Beyond Market Value : : A Memoir of Book Collecting and the World of Venture Capital / / Annette Campbell-White.
Beyond Market Value chronicles Annette Campbell-White’s remarkable life, from a childhood spent in remote mining camps throughout the British Commonwealth, where books created an imaginary home; to her early adulthood in London, where she first discovered a vocation as a book collector; to Silicon V...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021] ©2019 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (248 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- 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
- Acceleration: Completion of the Connolly List
- Hubris
- The Sale
- The End of the World?
- New Horizons
- Epilogue The Point of It All
- Appendix
- Index