8vo. Original black cloth-backed grey boards gilt (some very faint spotting to edge of text block and front pastedown); original pictorial dust jacket (price-clipped, some slight rubbing to folds, a few tiny chips); quarter green morocco folding case gilt. Provenance: bookseller's ticket on rear pastedown.

FIRST EDITION, later printing, with code "F-H" on copyright page. Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits, Fisher's first book, was the first investment book to make the New York Times bestseller list; it is still considered "one of the best investment books of all time" according to James K. Glassman of the National Review. Fisher believed in long-term investing and was an advocate for studying the company rather than the stock, and he provided a 15-point checklist of questions to ask about a company when considering an investment strategy.