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1) Other books related to Benjamin Graham
2) Philip Carret
3) Peter Lynch
4) Martin Whitman
5) Joel Greenblatt
6) Mohnish Pabrai

1) Other Books related to BENJAMIN GRAHAM :

"Security Analysis: The Classic 1934 Edition" by Benjamin Graham and David L. Dodd. Mc Graw Hill , 725 pages, 10/1996. ISBN : 0-07-024496-0 .

This is a reprint of the first edition. "The intelligent investor" is a kind of a summary of this book. You can find it here There is also a TMF Board dedicated to this book here

Well that's The Bible for many investors! IMHO, read at least the first 100 pages.

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"Security Analysis: The Classic 1940 Edition" by Benjamin Graham and David L. Dodd. Mc Graw Hill , 752 pages, 10/2002.

This is a reprint of the second edition. This edition is less expansive than the original book! ;-)

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"Security Analysis: The Classic 1951 Edition" by Benjamin Graham and David L. Dodd. Mc Graw Hill , 770 pages, 12/2004.

This is a reprint of the thrid edition. This is the last edition written by Benjamin Graham (contrary to the fourth edition which is not recommended).

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"Security Analysis: Security Analysis Sixth Edition" by Benjamin Graham and David L. Dodd. Mc Graw Hill , 700 pages, 09/2008.

Foreword by Warren Buffett. More details here ;)

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"The rediscovered Benjamin Graham : Selected writings of the Wall Street Legend" by Janet Lowe. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 275 pages, 1999. ISBN : 0-471-24472-4.

The content of book is unique! It is full of rare and great reprints, lectures and interviews by and with Benjamin Graham.

BONUS : The Part Four of this book contains an abridged version of this complete text : "Current Problems in Security Analysis". You can find its full version for free at this address http://www.wiley.com/bgraham/.

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"The Interpretation of Financial Statements" by Benjamin O. Graham and Spencer B. Meredith. Harperbusiness, 122 pages, 01/1998 (this is a copy of the 1937 edition). ISBN : 0887309135.

"An excellent beginner's guide on how to read and analyze financial statements. Accounting is the language of business and if you plan to become an investor you must learn how to read it. I would recommend the 1964 2nd Revised Edition of this book if you can locate it." (from http://www.focusinvestor.com/bookreview.htm). Note: The second edition authors are : Benjamin O. Graham and Charles McGolrick. (1964 Cover) Publishers : Harper & Row (Library of Congress Card Number : 64-20545).

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"Benjamin Graham: The Memoirs of the Dean of Wall Street" by Benjamin Graham. McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing, 351pages, 07/1996. ISBN : 0070242690.

Autobiography by Benjamin Graham especially about his personal life (but not about value investing). Nice introduction (32 pages) by Seymour Chatman.

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MORE : Other main Benjamin Graham books are available here

Still more Benjamin Graham books! :

"Storage and Stability: A Modern Ever-Normal Granary (Benjamin Graham Classics)" by Benjamin Graham

"World Commodities and World Currency (Benjamin Graham Classics)" by Benjamin Graham

Number 1 (scroll down to "What was Benjamin Graham's idea?") ; Number 2 ; Number 3 (click inside the links) and Number 4 (click inside the links).

While waiting for the book(s) you ordered about Benjamin Graham, you can visit this website : http://www.capatcolumbia.com/

2) PHILIP L. CARRET :

"Philip Carret has the best truly long-term investment record of anyone I know" - Warren Buffett. [Mr Carret was still alive at the time of this comment]

"The main thing is to find wonderful businesses, like Phil Carret, who's here today, always did. He's a hero of investing, and that's an approach he's used." Warren Buffett - 1996 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting .

"If there ever was a hall of fame for invesment advisers, he'd be among the first ten in it" - Warren Buffett. - Extracted from "The book of investing wisdom" page 182.

"The Art of Speculation" by Philip Carret. John Wiley & Sons, 384 pages, 03/1997 (First edition - 1930). ISBN : 0471181889.

BONUS : Book reviews : Here

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"A Money Mind at Ninety" by Philip Carret. Fraser Pub Co, 233 pages, 01/1995 (First edition -12/1991). ISBN : 0870341014.

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"Buying a bond : Being a reprint of a series of articles on bond buying which originally appeared in Barron's" by Philip Carret. Hugh Ban croft Publisher, 157 pages, 1924 First edition (Second printing 08/1924 ; Third printing 09/1924 ; Fourth printing 02/1925; Fifth printing 11/1928; Sixth 08/1929).

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3) PETER LYNCH :

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"One up on Wall Street : How to use what you already know to make money in the market" by Peter Lynch. 216 pages, 11/1998 (Old Cover). (First edition in 1989).

The author invites the reader to locate, collate and organize information to make the right choices for investing. According to Peter Lynch, it is not necessary to be a professionnal of the stock markets for choosing the best stocks for his portfolio !

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4) MARTIN WHITMAN

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"The Aggressive Conservative Investor (Wiley Investment Classic)" by Martin J. Whitman. Updated edition, 480 pages, 11/2005 (First Edition 01/1979).

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"Value Investing : A Balanced Approach (Frontiers in Finance Series)" by Martin J. Whitman. Updated edition, 288 pages, 09/2000.

BONUS : More in BRKNEWS here

Also : Distress Investing: Principles and Technique

5) JOEL GREENBLATT

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"The Little Book That Still Beats the Market" by Joel Greenblatt. Wiley, 2nd edtition 183 pages 09/2010 (1rst edition : 176 pages, 11/2005).

Great "little book" which gives to a general audience details and results of Mr. Greenblatt "Magic" formula!

BONUS : http://www.magicformulainvesting.com/

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"You Can Be a Stock Market Genius (Even if You're Not Too Smart) : Uncover the Secret Hiding Places of Stock Market Profits" by Joel Greenblatt.Simon & Schuster, 304pages, 02/1999 (First edition : 1997). ISBN : 0684840073.

Great book which gives you the real and useful basis of arbitrage.

BONUS 1 : Various Links : Number 1 and Number 2

BONUS 2 : http://www.valueinvestorsclub.com

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Also : The Big Secret for the Small Investor: A New Route to Long-Term Investment Success (Kindle Link)

6) MOHNISH PABRAI

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"The Dhandho Investor: The Low- Risk Value Method to High Returns" by Mohnish Pabrai. 196 pages, 04/2007. Wiley.

Charlie Munger once said (OID September 24, 1998) : "Finance properly taught should be taught from cases where the investment decisions are easy. (...) If I were teaching finance, I'd want to use maybe 100 cases like that. That's the best way to teach the subject.". IMHO you will find in this book some great cases with each time senarios and probabilities described. It is a simple but powerful book, a 'must have' for any Value Investor. ;-)

BONUS 1 : http://www.pabraifunds.com/

BONUS 2 : Visit with Mohnish Pabrai by Sham Gad (April 2007)

BONUS 3: Foundation of Mr. And Mrs. Pabrai (India): http://www.dakshana.org with a letter by Monhish Pabrai http://www.dakshana.org/about_us/letter%20from.asp

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"Mosaic: Perspectives on Investing" by Mohnish Pabrai. 138 pages, 2004 2nd edition. Grammer Buff. ISBN : 0974797413. (Cover 2004 1st ed)

A small, but interesting investing book which is mainly a compilation of articles by Mr. Pabrai previously published at TheStreet.com and Silicon India Magazine. "Dhando!" ;-)

BONUS : Forbes article here

Buying a new copy of this book at Amazon was a little tricky: You had to go here. Then, click on "Used/New". "Grammer Buff is the official shop which sell new copies of this book at Amazon". This book is now very difficult to find as it is out of print (source: here)!