Beat the Market: A Scientific Stock Market System.

THRORP, Edward O. and Sheen T. Kassouf.

Item Number: 89656

New York: Random House, 1967.

First edition of one of the most influential books of all time on Wall Street, whose methods launched “the quant” revolution of modern quantitative finance. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “For George, Best Wishes Ed Thorp.” Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Paul Bacon.

The book offers step-by-step instructions, with explanatory, charts and tables, whereby anyone with $2000.00 brokerage account can conduct his own investment program. Details are given of actual investments made by the authors, one of whom more than doubled $100,000 in five years.