The Hunt for Red October. by CLANCY, Tom - 1984

Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1984. Inscribed copy of his first novel First edition, first printing, enthusiastically inscribed as such by the author on the half-title, "First Edition! Tom Clancy". The Hunt for Red October, famously described as "the perfect yarn" by Ronald Reagan, was Clancy's first novel and the debut of the character Jack Ryan.
This copy has all the required points of the first printing: 18 lines of text on the imprint page with no statement of edition or printing number; no price on the front flap of the dust jacket; and the rear panel printing an ISBN with no barcode and six reviews, the third by Clive Cussler.
A film adaptation, directed by John McTiernan, was released in 1990 and starred Sean Connery and Alec Baldwin. The book and film also led to two video games. Octavo. Original red cloth, spine and rear cover lettered in silver, blind-stamped decoration on front cover, grey endpapers. With dust jacket. Cloth bright, contents fresh. A near-fine copy in very good dust jacket, couple of nicks and short closed tears, small tape repairs to verso, mildly toned, but overall quite bright.