Intro; Foreword; 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 CurrencyBuying 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
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