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Ludlum, Robert. THE BOURNE IDENTITY. richard marek pub, 1980.
Price: US$111.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: book club edition hardback book GOOOD/dustjacket GOOD in brodart cover, SIGNED by author
Seller: ODDS & ENDS BOOKS, Sherwood Forest, CA, U.S.A.
Ludlum, Robert. The Bourne Identity. Richard Marek Publishers, New York, 1980.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st Edition/1st Printing. SIGNED by Robert Ludlum on a color photo-card affixed to front end page (signature only). $12.95 price intact on dj flap; light edge wear; mylar protected. Black cloth with bright gilt spine titles; some light scuffing to bottom page block; and some wear to rear to pastedown. Ludlum's first 'Bourne' novel. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Daniel Montemarano, Newfield, NJ, U.S.A.
Ludlum, Robert. The Bourne Identity. Richard Marek, New York, 1980.
Price: US$295.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 1980 Richard Marek 1st Edition of this superb spy thriller in Near Fine/VG condition and ***SIGNED*** on a bookplate placed on the title page. The text and HB undamaged and bright, the black cloth boards are unfaded. . The DJ is unclipped and has four repaired tears, and minor loss of paper at the corner folds and spine ends. A beautiful copy of the book made twice into a film.
Seller: Bren-Books, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
Ludlum, Robert. The Bourne Identity. Richard Marek, New York, 1980.
Price: US$479.00 + shipping
Description: SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on a special, decorative bookplate. AN EXTREMELY CLEAN, ATTRACTIVE COPY WITH A BRIGHT, BEAUTIFUL DUSTJACKET IN NEW, GLOSSY BRODART. 1ST PRINTING. NOT PRICE CLIPPED. NO PREVIOUS OWNER MARKINGS. Orignial price of $12.95 on the front dustjacket flap. First in the Jason Bourne series. HANDSOME, COLLECTIBLE COPY.
Seller: Books Plus, LLC, Lexington, SC, U.S.A.
Price: US$495.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st Edition/1st Printing. SIGNED by Robert Ludlum on a bookplate affixed to dedication page (signature only). $12.95 price intact on DJ flap; light edge wear; mylar protected. Black cloth with gilt spine titles. Ludlum's first 'Bourne' novel. Several signed items from the 2002 film version of novel. Laid-in (not attached) is a color photo SIGNED by MATT DAMON (film's star as 'Jason Bourne'). Also attached to front end page is a card SIGNED by TONY GILROY (wrote screenplay for film); and a photo-card SIGNED by DOUG LIMAN (the film's Director). Attached to half-title page is a card SIGNED by BRIAN COX (played 'Ward Abbott'); plus another card SIGNED by CHRIS COOPER (played 'Conklin'). Comes with a DVD of the film. Unique copy for the Ludlum--Bourne series fan or collector. NOTE: No International orders for this book. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Daniel Montemarano, Newfield, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: The Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum. New York: Richard Marek Publishers, 1980. ***First Edition, Original Dust Jacket, SIGNED by Author, 523 pp, 9.25 x 6.25", 8vo. Points of First Edition: 1. "Copyright 1980 by Robert Ludlum" at the top of the copyright page, and 2. "Printed in the United States of America" at the bottom. 3. Dust jacket has price of $12.95 at the top of the front flap and 4. "8003" and "SBN: 399-90070-5" on the bottom of same flap. In good condition. Dust jacket is lightly scuffed at head of spine. Edges of dust jacket are rubbed, but jacket is otherwise clean and intact. Black cloth boards rubbed at edges and corners. Head and tail of cloth spine bumped. Gilt lettering bright and clean. Light toning found on front and rear paste-downs from dust jacket flaps. Author signature found on front end-page, in blue marker. Light finger-soiling found on front end-page's bottom corner. Light tea-staining found on fore-edges of pages 221-223. Top corners bumped on pages 223-234. Text-block lightly toned around edges. Binding tight and intact. Please see photos and ask questions, if any, before purchasing. Robert Ludlum (1927-2001) was an American author of 27 thriller novels, best known as the creator of Jason Bourne from the original The Bourne Trilogy (The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy, and The Bourne Ultimatum) series. The number of copies of his books in print is estimated between 300 million and 500 million. They have been published in 33 languages and 40 countries. Ludlum also published under the pseudonyms Jonathan Ryder and Michael Shepherd. This is the first book in the Jason Bourne Trilogy. It follows Bourne's quest to find his identity as a remarkable survivor with retrograde amnesia. The preface consists of two real-life newspaper articles from 1975 about terrorist Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, known as "Carlos the Jackal." There is speculation Jason Bourne was inspired by Ansel Bourne (1826-1910), a famous 19th-century psychology case due his experience of a probable dissociative fugue (formerly called a fugue state or psychogenic fugue; a rare psychiatric phenomenon characterized by reversible amnesia for one's identity in conjunction with unexpected travel or wandering). Ansel Bourne one day left his previous life and built himself a new life with a new profession elsewhere under a new name ("A. J. Brown"); after two months, he woke up with no memories of this new life, but with memories recovered up to this time and returned to his old life. A First Edition, SIGNED by Ludlum in good condition. GIFT QUALITY!! RAREA1980DNOA 04/24 - HK1495
Seller: ROBIN RARE BOOKS at the Midtown Scholar, Harrisburg, PA, U.S.A.
Robert Ludlum. The Bourne Identity. Richard Marek, 1980.
Price: US$850.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First printing. Signed by the author on the first free endpaper. A fine copy, in a near fine, unclipped dust jacket. The very slightest edge wear to the jacket, a bit of sunning and a tiny closed tear to the spine at the crown. A beautiful copy of the famed spy thriller, increasingly scarce signed. The first novel of the Bourne series, adapted to film most recently in 2002. Laid is in a bookmark from the signing event at the time, for the First Edition Circle at Kroch s & Brentano s in Chicago.
Seller: Canton Books, Princeton, NJ, U.S.A.
Ludlum, Robert; INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. The Bourne Identity. RICHARD MAREK, NEW YORK, 1980.
Price: US$1200.00 + shipping
Description: good cover and spine. gold gilt lettering to spine. very clean endpapers. the stated first printing of the first edition. front flap of DJ is bent. Front Flap of DJ states price of 12.95. wear to edges. pages are very clean.faint storage odor, Basis for the movie starring Matt Damon as Jason Bourne. 2002 film directed by Doug Liman and starring Frank Potente, Chris Cooper, Brian Cox, and Clive Owen. Book is signed and inscribed by the author in black pen to front endpaper. inscription, dated 3.9.80, states" For Jo+Al - Every good with, an always _ & "bro"! Hope we can get together and _ nose Love, Bob". Josephine Ludmun (Robert Ludlum's sister) was married to Alfred Totter (circa 1965). Josephine and Alfred lived on Broadview Terrace in Chatham, N. J. faint storage odor DATE PUBLISHED: 1980 EDITION: FIRST ED 523
Seller: Princeton Antiques Bookshop, Atlantic City, NJ, U.S.A.