CFA Fundamentals Paperback: 588 pages Publisher: Kaplan (Aug 2005) ISBN-10: 1419526820 ISBN-13: 978-1419526824

The book is very basic and prepares you well for all the material covered in Level-1. If you start preparing in Dec (or Jul for Dec Exam) then this might be a good book to start with. If you have any previous experience in Financial field, this book will be useless. You can pretty much skim all the pages in a weekend. I spent about 6 hrs and was able to finish couple of chapters.

I would recommend this book only to someone who doesn't have finance/business knowledge and has some extra time to prepare. Anyone regardless of their experience can do without this book.

I bought it directly from Schweser, but it might be cheap at Amazon or Ebay.