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
