Beyond market value : a memoir of book collecting and the world of venture capital / Annette Campbell-White.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Campbell-White, Annette, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Campbell-White, Annette.

Book collectors--Biography.

Book collectors.

Book collecting.

Women capitalists and financiers--Biography.

Women capitalists and financiers.

Women in finance.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (249 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Austin : University of Texas Press, 2019.

Summary:

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 Valley, where she built a pioneering career as a formidable venture capitalist. She recalls the impulsive purchase of the first book in her collection, T. S. Eliot’s A Song for Simeon, and her pursuit of rare editions of all one hundred titles listed in Cyril Connolly’s The Modern Movement. Campbell-White’s collecting and career peaked in 2005, when she acquired the last of the Connolly titles and was first named to Forbes’ Midas List, the annual ranking of the most successful dealmakers in venture capital. In 2007, out of concern for their preservation, Campbell-White rashly sold the Connolly titles she had spent more than twenty years assembling, leading to a new appreciation of what remained of her collection and, going forward, a broader focus on collecting modernist letters, manuscripts, and ephemera. Beyond Market Value is both a loving tribute to literary collecting and a telling account of the challenges of being a woman in the male-dominated world of finance.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4773-1937-9

1-4773-1936-0

OCLC:

1269268991