Beyond Market Value

A Memoir of Book Collecting and the World of Venture Capital

Annette Campbell-White (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

248 Seiten

2019
University of Texas Press (Verlag)
9781477319352 (ISBN)

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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.

Annette Campbell-White was the first biotechnology analyst on Wall Street and the first female partner at Hambrecht & Quist, a leading investment banking firm. She founded MedVenture Associates, a venture capital business that, over time, created more than $5 billion in cumulative value. She appeared on Forbes’ Midas List from 2005–2007. She is a committed supporter of the arts, having established the Kia Ora Foundation in 1997.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	20.08.2019
Zusatzinfo	13 color photos, 4 b&w photos
Verlagsort	Austin, TX
Sprache	englisch
Maße	178 x 254 mm
Gewicht	708 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Antiquitäten
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Beruf / Finanzen / Recht / Wirtschaft ► Wirtschaft
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik
ISBN-13	9781477319352 / 9781477319352
Zustand	Neuware