[Rarebooks] fs: Clancy. Hunt for Red October, 1st, DJ, Signature laid in

[Back Creek Books]

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Back Creek Books is pleased to offer:
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Clancy, Tom. THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER (FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, 
CLIPPED AUTHOR SIGNATURE LAID IN).
Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, (1984). First printing, Full cloth, 
Octavo, [vi], 387 pages. Fine in a Fine Dust Jacket, Jacket in Mylar 
protector.
          CIA analyst Jack Ryan makes his debut in this Cold War fiction 
high spot, playing a hunch that Soviet submarine captain Marko Ramius is 
trying to defect with his navy's new silently-propelled 
ballistic-missile sub. First printing of the 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.) In addition, the late author's signature is laid 
in, likely clipped from one of his other books. The signature is in bold 
blue ink, undated. The book is 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. A few shallow wrinkles to 
cloth at spine ends.......    $750.00
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