Profoundly Influential
Thinking Fast and Slow
Publication: New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011. First Edition.
Notes: One of the most influential nonfiction works of the 21st century. In this book, Kahneman, a research psychologist who won the Nobel Prize in economics, explores how humans think, drawing on decades of research into intuition and biases.
Thinking Fast and Slow is a highly readable but dense survey of behavioral psychology—a sort of Master's level course in 499 pages. The book apparently had a relatively small first printing, commensurate with the demands it places on readers, and since then it has sold nearly 3 million copies.
Edition + Condition: First edition, first printing (with a numberline ending in 1). Black remainder dot on the bottom edge, else fine in a fine dust jacket. Unread. Very scarce as a first printing.
Given that this book was reprinted dozens of times in hardcover, the remainder dot is unexpected. However, it may have been a bookstore return or when the book went into paperback the publisher could have remaindered the hardcovers still in the warehouse. Sometimes old boxes get buried by new printings, especially when a book is reprinted frequently. It's a small flaw in an otherwise flawless copy.
ISBN: 9780374275631
Item No: #366135
Price: $600