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

Trade Review
A 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

Beyond Market Value A Memoir of Book Collecting

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      Publisher University of Texas Press
      Published 3 September 2019
      ISBN-13 9781477319352
      978-1477319352
      ISBN-10 1477319352
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      Description

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

      Trade Review
      A 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

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