Catch Me If You Can by Frank Abagnale - 1980

First Edition/Stated First Printing; A very good book in a very good dust jacket. SIGNED by the author on the front free end paper. A handsome copy of this novel which is the basis for the outstanding movie starring Tom Hanks and Leo DiCaprio; scarce in collectible condition, particularly signed. This copy is in very good condition showing mild shelf wear to the edges, light spotting to the text block, and a very slight bow to the front board. Housed in a very good dust jacket that shows minor rubbing and some light chipping to the spine ends and edges, and very mild foxing to the back panel and flaps. Not remaindered, not price clipped, not ex-library; in archival protection.
Frank Abagnale wrote $2.5 million in bad checks, practiced law without a license, practiced medicine with no medical training, co-piloted a Pan Am jet with a fake license, taught at a college though he was actually a high-school dropout, and managed to outwit and outrage the police of 26 foreign countries and all 50 states. Catch Me if You Can is the hilarious, now-classic story of Abagnale's stranger-than-fiction international escapades, and his ingenious escapes -- including one from an airplane. Now updated with a new afterword, Catch Me if You Can contains all of the elements of the most wildly imaginative fiction, except that all of Abagnale's exploits actually happened. Stylish, charming, and not one to skimp on luxury, Abagnale lived a sumptuous life on the lam from which he retired when he was 21. Now recognized as the nation's leading authority on financial foul play, Abagnale tells the ultimate true-crime story, from the point of view of one of history's most lovable rogues.