Beyond Market Value: A Memoir of Book Collecting and the World of Venture Capital

Account by New Zealand born female bookdealer who transitioned to a career as a venture capitalist. 

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