Born to Run.

SPRINGSTEEN, Bruce.

Item Number: 119735

New York: Simon & Schuster, 2016.

First edition of Springsteen’s revelatory autobiography. Octavo, original half cloth, pictorial endpapers. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Jackie Seow. Jacket photograph by Frank Stefano.

Springsteen spent 7 years writing this, the story of his life, in which he describes growing up Catholic in Freehold, New Jersey, the moment he refers to as "The Big Bang" when he witnessed Elvis Presley's debut on the Ed Sullivan show, his early days as a bar-band king, and the personal struggles that inspired his best work. "Writing about yourself is a funny business... but in a project like this, the writer has made one promise, to show the reader his mind. In these pages, I've tried to do this" (Bruce Spingsteen).