Description
Book SynopsisA fascinating memoir by a passionate bibliophile and pioneering venture capitalist.
Trade ReviewA pleasure to read. * Fine Books Magazine *
Table of Contents
- 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
