The Hunt for Red October by Clancy, Tom - 1984

Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1984. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First Edition, First Printing, with no writing, marks, or underlining. Former owner's bookplate on ffep and a puckered title page. No remainder marks. First edition [first printing] with the earliest printing/state/issue of both the book and the Dust Wrapper. The book [which weighs more than 1 pound 13 ounces] has uniformly colored red cloth, silver spine lettering, submarine and Hammer and Sickle in blind on the front, ISBN 0-87021-285-0 in silver on the rear, 18 lines of text [and no statement of printing] on the copyright page. The Dust Wrapper does not have a price printed on the front flap, the rear panel has ISBN 0-87021-285-0 and six blurbs by [in order top to bottom] Jack Higgins, Joseph Wambaugh, Clive Cussler, Edward L. Beach, John Moore, and Stansfield Turner. 387 pages Spine is tight and crisp. Boards are flat and true and the corners are square. Dust jacket is not priced with two minor edge tears on crown of dj. This highly collectible, " VERY GOOD" condition first edition/first printing copy is protected with a polyester archival dust jacket cover. Nice collectible copy of a very scarce title. GIFT QUALITY