[Rarebooks] fs: Clancy. Hunt for Red October, 1st, DJ, Signed

[Back Creek Books]

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Back Creek Books is pleased to offer:
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(No.    9528    )  Clancy, Tom. THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER (FIRST 
PRINTING, SIGNED).
Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, (1984). First printing, Full cloth, 
Octavo, [vi], 387 pages. Good in a Good Dust Jacket, Jacket in Mylar 
protector.
          CIA analyst Jack Ryan makes his debut, playing a hunch that 
Soviet submarine captain Marko Ramius is trying to defect with his 
navy's new silently-propelled ballistic-missile sub. Clancy's first 
book, INSCRIBED and SIGNED in year of publication on half title page. 
The inscription reads: "To xxx xxxx / whose daughter discovered me / Tom 
Clancy / 10/16/1984." The reference is to then acquisitions editor at 
the Naval Institute Press, who "discovered" this Cold War fiction high 
spot. This is the actual first printing of the actual first edition with 
all the points present (correct number of lines on copyright page, 
correct number of reviews in proper order on rear jacket panel, no 
jacket price, proper weight, etc.) Bound in full brick red cloth over 
boards with silver stamped spine lettering and blind stamped submarine 
with hammer and sickle to upper board, spine lettered in silver foil, 
ISBN in silver foil on lower board, gray endpapers. Faint rubs to bottom 
edges of boards, light foxing to text block edges. Jacket has some 
shallow edge wrinkles and light rubs, and a .75" closed tear at top edge 
of lower joint fold.......    $500.00
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