Bogle On Mutual Funds: New Perspectives for the Intelligent Investor; Common Sense on Mutual Funds: New Imperatives for the Intelligent Investor; John Bogle on Investing: The First 50 Years; Character Counts: The Creation and Building of The Vanguard Group; The Battle for the Soul of Capitalism; The Little Book of Common Sense Investing: The Only Way to Guarantee Your Fair Share of Stock Market Returns; Enough: True Measures of Money, Business, and Life; Common Sense on Mutual Funds: Fully Updated 10th Anniversary Edition; Don’t Count on it!: Reflections on Investment Illusions, Capitalism, “Mutual” Funds, Indexing, Entrepreneurship, Idealism, and Heroes; The Clash of the Cultures: Investment vs. Speculation; Stay the Course: The Story of Vanguard and the Index Revolution.

BOGLE, John C.

$3,500.00

Item Number: 143557

New York: McGraw Hill and Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 1994-2019.

Complete first edition collection of every book published by the Chairman of the Vanguard Group, all but one volume signed or inscribed by him. Octavo, 14 volumes, original publisher’s cloth and half cloth. The collection contains: Bogle On Mutual Funds: New Perspectives for the Intelligent Investor. New York: Irwin, 1994. First edition, early printing. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To Rob Skalski – with best wishes for a fine career at Vanguard. John Bogle November 19, 1997”; Common Sense on Mutual Funds: New Imperatives for the Intelligent Investor. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1999. First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To Rob Skalski, with great confidence in your judgement on investment strategy and choices for Vanguard’s clients, knowing that index funds work! Best wishes, always, John C. Bogle April 20, 1999”; John Bogle on Investing: The First 50 Years. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2001. First edition, second printing. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper; Character Counts: The Creation and Building of The Vanguard Group. New York: McGraw Hill, 2002. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper in the year of publication; The Battle for the Soul of Capitalism. First edition. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper. The Little Book of Common Sense Investing: The Only Way to Guarantee Your Fair Share of Stock Market Returns. Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2007. First edition. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper; Enough: True Measures of Money, Business, and Life. Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2009. First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper; Common Sense on Mutual Funds: Fully Updated 10th Anniversary Edition. Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2010. First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper. Don’t Count on it!: Reflections on Investment Illusions, Capitalism, “Mutual” Funds, Indexing, Entrepreneurship, Idealism, and Heroes. Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2011. First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper; The Clash of the Cultures: Investment vs. Speculation. Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2012. First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper; The Little Book of Common Sense Investing: 10th Anniversary Edition. Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2017. First edition. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper; Stay the Course: The Story of Vanguard and the Index Revolution. Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2019. First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper. And with two biographies of Bogle: John Bogle and the Vanguard Experiment. Slater, Robert. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1997. First edition, early printing. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper; The Man in the Arena. Edited by Knut S. Rostad. Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2013. First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper. Each volume is near fine in a near fine to fine dust jacket. Ownership name and date to each volume. An exceptional collection with wonderful provenance.

In 1975, John Bogle founded the world's first index mutual fund. Its concept - that passively investing in the entire market over the long term at lower costs will earn higher returns than will active managers (as a group) who pick individual stocks and charge higher fees - was immediately ridiculed. Some even called it "un-American." Investors begged to differ. By 2013, 27% of equity mutual fund assets were invested in index funds, and Vanguard had become the world's largest mutual fund manager with client assets of $2.2 trillion. Bogle's 1999 book Common Sense on Mutual Funds: New Imperatives for the Intelligent Investor became a bestseller and is considered a classic within the investment community.