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The Bourne Identity
by Robert Ludlum
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Poor
- Seller
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San Antonio, Texas, United States
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About This Item
Hardcover Cloth 508 pages. Condition Very Good Dust Jacket Poor. Book Club edition 1980. Handsome black boards and yellow embossing shows off this tight and sound copy with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Book shows Slight shelf wear - bumped corners. Edges have the usual yellowing. An unclipped dust jacket with considerable shelf wear - tears, scrapes, stains, scratches, wrinkles and chips. Not an ex-library or remainder copy.
Who is Jason Bourne? Is he an assassin, a terrorist, a thief? Why has he got four million dollars in a Swiss bank account? Why has someone tried to murder him?...
Jason Bourne does not know the answer to any of these questions. Suffering from amnesia, he does not even know that he is Jason Bourne. What manner of man is he? What are his secrets? Who has he killed?
Robert Ludlum was the author of twenty-seven novels, each one a New York Times bestseller. There are more than 210 million of his books in print, and they have been translated into thirty-two languages. He is the author of The Scarlatti Inheritance, The Chancellor Manuscript, and the Jason Bourne series--The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy, and The Bourne Ultimatum--among others. Mr. Ludlum passed away in March, 2001. Ludlum also published books under the pseudonyms Jonathan Ryder and Michael Shepherd.
Some of Ludlum's novels have been made into films and mini-series, including The Osterman Weekend, The Holcroft Covenant, The Apocalypse Watch, The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy and The Bourne Ultimatum. A non-Ludlum book supposedly inspired by his unused notes, Covert One: The Hades Factor, has also been made into a mini-series. The Bourne movies, starring Matt Damon in the title role, have been commercially and critically successful (The Bourne Ultimatum won three Academy Awards in 2008), although the story lines depart significantly from the source material.
Synopsis
Robert Ludlum was the author of twenty-one novels, each a New York Times bestseller. There are more than 210 million of his books in print, and they have been translated into thirty-two languages. In addition to the Jason Bourne series— The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy, and The Bourne Ultimatum —he was the author of The Scarlatti Inheritance, The Chancellor Manuscript, and The Apocalypse Watch, among many others. Mr. Ludlum passed away in March, 2001.
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- Seller
- River House Books
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 657267
- Title
- The Bourne Identity
- Author
- Robert Ludlum
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Poor
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Richard Marek
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1980
- Pages
- 508
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Novel; First Editions;
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I ship domestically in the US using the Post Office and internationally using consolidation services. Books are always wrapped then packed in cardboard boxes with padding to protect the contents. International shipments are double boxed with shipping paperwork attached to the outside of the box using a special envelope. And a complete duplicate of all the paperwork packed inside the outer box in case the attached set wanders off.
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