Handwritten Springsteen ‘Born to Run’ manuscript heads to NYC auction; could fetch $100,000
NEW YORK, N.Y. – A handwritten working manuscript of Bruce Springsteen’s 1975 hit “Born to Run” will be offered at auction on Dec. 5 in New York.
Sotheby’s said Wednesday the presale estimate is $70,000 to $100,000.
The seller wasn’t revealed. Sotheby’s said the document had been in the collection of Springsteen’s former manager, Mike Appel (uh-PEHL’).
Sotheby’s says most of the lines in this 1974 version are apparently unpublished and unrecorded. However, the manuscript does include “a nearly perfected chorus.”
It’s written in blue ink, on an 8 1/2-by-11-inch sheet of ruled notepaper.
The document will be part of a Manhattan sale of fine books and manuscripts. It was written in Long Branch, N.J.
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