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Beyond Market Value : a Memoir of Book Collecting and the World of Venture Capital /
<P><i>Beyond Market Value</i> 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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Austin, TX :
University of Texas Press,
2019.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | <P><i>Beyond Market Value</i> 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 <i>A Song for Simeon</i>, and her pursuit of rare editions of all one hundred titles listed in Cyril Connolly?s <i>The Modern Movement. </i>Campbell-White?s collecting and career peaked in 2005, when she acquired the last of the Connolly titles and was first named to <i>Forbes</i>? Midas List, the annual ranking of the most successful dealmakers in venture capital.</p><p>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. <i>Beyond Market Value</i> 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.</p> |
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| Notas: | Includes index. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (249 pages) |
| ISBN: | 1477319360 9781477319369 |