Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits

Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits
Philip A. Fisher

Book Description: John Wiley & Sons Inc, New York, 1997. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover, Brown leatherette boards with gilt title to cover and spine, gilt page edges, This limited edition printing of Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits by Philip A. Fisher is a limited to a print run of 1500 copies. This copy is number 1089 of 1500. (Originally published in 1958 by Harper & Brothers),

Book Condition: Very Good, corners lightly bumped otherwise appears as new, no dust jacket,

Contents: Preface, 1. Clues from the Past, 2. What "Scuttlebutt" Can Do, 3. What to Buy-The Fifteen Points to Look for in a Common Stock, 4. What to Buy-Applying This to Your Own Needs, 5. When to Buy, 6. When to Sell-and When Not to, 7. The Hullabaloo about Dividends, 8. Five Don'ts for Investors: 1. Don't buy into promotional companies, 2. Don't ignore a good stock just because it is traded "over the counter," 3. Don't buy a stock just because you like the "tone" of its annual report, 4. Don't assume that the high prices at which a stock may be selling in relation to earnings is necessarily an indication that further growth in those earnings has largely been already discounted in the price, 5. Don't quibble over eighths and quarters, 9. Five More Don'ts for Investors, 1. Don't overstress diversification, 2. Don't be afraid of buying on a war scare, 3. Don't forget your Gilbert and Sullivan, 4. Don't fail to consider time as well as price in buying a true growth stock, 5. Don't follow the crowd, 10. How I Go about Finding a Growth Stock, 11. Summary and Conclusion, Index. -- end. 182 pp. Limited Edition of this Fisher Classic.

Status: SOLD, 27 January 2012 to Private Collector in South Dakota.