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Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run (Bookplate)

I just purchased this on Abe Books from a bookshop in Australia for, frankly, a ridiculously low price (to the point where it’s worth taking a risk for me).

Picture of what I ordered is attached here.

Hardcover with a bookplate, which I figured was less likely to be a forgery. It looks very similar to another bookplate version I saw online. https://www.backstreets.com/newsarchive85.html

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Permalink Reply by Kai Jones on August 18, 2024 at 8:12am

Real, as long as live ink. Im curious what you scored it for!

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Permalink Reply by KP on August 18, 2024 at 4:31pm

Just under $40. I’m very interested to see what happens - if I got lucky and this is what I end up getting I’ll be thrilled, but even if not I bought through Abe and used a credit card, so I should be protected on those fronts. The fact that it was through what appears to be a real store makes me a bit more hopeful. None of their other listings are out of the ordinary or suspicious to me either

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Permalink Reply by Kai Jones on August 18, 2024 at 4:59pm

Wow! Score of the century if so - good luck!

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Permalink Reply by Bruce Juice on August 18, 2024 at 1:52pm

Bruce signed well over 10,000 of these books and now more are at his live shows for $200 -- so the value for these has been going down over the years. Bookplate signed ones are worth less than the ones signed directly on the book page.

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Permalink Reply by KP on August 18, 2024 at 4:29pm

Absolutely - but I paid about the same as the book by itself costs for this. I’m more just wondering if I receive it at this point. I bought through Abe and used a Credit Card so I’m doubly protected there, but hoping it’s just a fluke thing and I got really lucky.

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Permalink Reply by David Munch on August 18, 2024 at 8:40pm

In the link I don't see any options for purchase. Am I missing something? And is it real the bookplate or is an autopen?

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Permalink Reply by crazyrabbits23 on August 18, 2024 at 11:59pm

The link in the post was referring to a blog post that showed a similar example of the bookplated version, not offered a link to buy copies.

The blog post references a signing event that was held at the Indigo Yonge/Bloor location in 2018(?) -- looks like books were pre-signed. Had I known about that event, I might have tried for a signed copy. Then again, I wasn't collecting as heavily as I have been the last five years.

Really good scores on Abebooks aren't completely uncommon -- I've found the successes I've had ordering from that site (notwithstanding the handful of fakes) have been from sellers in Ireland (where shipping to Canada is dirt-cheap) or stuff that was erroneously priced and didn't have seller-supplied pics, but were worth taking a gamble on. Completed my Atwood run of "Burning Questions" recently with a signed U.S. copy that only cost me $10 CAN (total, including shipping) from a U.S. seller. It was worth taking a gamble at that price, even if it turned out to be fake, but luckily, it had all the correct "proof points".

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Permalink Reply by Steve Viola on August 19, 2024 at 5:48am

Is this a softcover? If so, these were the books he was selling at his Springsteen on Broadway show for a limited time. Its real

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Permalink Reply by KP on August 20, 2024 at 2:55am

This one is hardcover but it looks like they may have been sold at his shows in Australia in 2017. I just saw a similar hardcover eBay listing coming out of Australia (which is where this is shipping from)