Hunt for Red October

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   The correct 1st edition of this 1984 book by Tom Clancy will cost you $1000 to $2500 depending on condition and insuring it is the true 1st. Of course the dust jacket must be in pristine condition.  
Because there is no price on first edition Hunt for Red October dust jacket, it can be confused for a book club
 edition if that alone is the criteria being considered. But fortunately
 there are several other ways to tell the first edition from the book club edition we have observed. The true first edition is 9.25 inches tall, while the book club edition is an inch shorter. The first edition has 18 lines of text on the copyright page, while the book club
 edition has only 12 lines of text. The missing 6 lines are Library of 
Congress statements. The first edition is fully bound in red cloth, 
while the book club edition has cheaper two-tone paper boards.

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Rontini Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Admin Group BBS Owner Joined: 16 Dec 2015 Location: Sheridan, WY Status: Offline Points: 4611	Post Options Post Reply Quote Rontini Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: Hunt for Red October Posted: 22 Oct 2017 at 10:16am
	The correct 1st edition of this 1984 book by Tom Clancy will cost you $1000 to $2500 depending on condition and insuring it is the true 1st. Of course the dust jacket must be in pristine condition. Because there is no price on first edition Hunt for Red October dust jacket, it can be confused for a book club edition if that alone is the criteria being considered. But fortunately there are several other ways to tell the first edition from the book club edition we have observed. The true first edition is 9.25 inches tall, while the book club edition is an inch shorter. The first edition has 18 lines of text on the copyright page, while the book club edition has only 12 lines of text. The missing 6 lines are Library of Congress statements. The first edition is fully bound in red cloth, while the book club edition has cheaper two-tone paper boards.
	Every increase in government authority is a decrease of the liberty of each citizen.

Rontini Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Admin Group BBS Owner Joined: 16 Dec 2015 Location: Sheridan, WY Status: Offline Points: 4611	Post Options Post Reply Quote Rontini Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 22 Oct 2017 at 10:26am
	More detail on the true first edition: It has the following first printing points: 18 lines on copyright page; ISBN number on the book back binding panel & on the dustjacket back panel; six blurbs on back dj with Clive Clusser's blurb in third place; no price on dustjacket; and no printing indicators on the copyright page). Condition: VG/VG. Red clothboards with silver printing; corners show touch of wear; blindstamped with Soviet hammer, sickle and submarine. T
	Every increase in government authority is a decrease of the liberty of each citizen.

Sewer Pipe Snipe Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List BBS Supporter Joined: 04 Jan 2016 Location: Albany, GA Status: Offline Points: 5723	Post Options Post Reply Quote Sewer Pipe Snipe Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 22 Oct 2017 at 5:18pm
	You mean I should have kept that early edition I bought instead of putting it in the boats library after I got done with it. I think about a fourth of the crew read it. Then it was left for the Gold Crew. This was a joke post on my part. However, I wonder just how many valuable books like this are out there and no one even guesses their value. I continued to give books to the Boats library even after I left for Shore Duty at SIMA Charleston. Now I give them to Goodwill. Edited by Sewer Pipe Snipe - 23 Oct 2017 at 5:34pm
	Walt, Had I done everything right throughout my life, the World wouldn't have noticed.

Hagar Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Rickover Joined: 03 Jan 2016 Location: Barrigada, Guam Status: Offline Points: 663	Post Options Post Reply Quote Hagar Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 22 Oct 2017 at 7:18pm
	Well sh*t, Sewer Pipe. I read that edition while flying from New York to Rome to meet the Tullibee in the Med in '86. Kind of scared me when he mentioned the Tullibee in there as a hunk'o'junk. Mine went to the small library also. Oh well, hagar
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Palm Bay Ken Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Mustang Joined: 03 Jan 2016 Location: Palm Bay, FL Status: Offline Points: 951	Post Options Post Reply Quote Palm Bay Ken Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 25 Oct 2017 at 6:58am
	"The first edition has 18 lines of text on the copyright page, while the book club edition has only 12 lines of text." I assume that the 19th line of numbers (85 86 87 88 15 14 13 12 11) dosen't count as "text"? Unfortunately, my dust cover is long gone after being passed around to many friends but the book is still in good condition.
	Ken Wiltshire K4HBE SS-206/SS-523/S1C/SSN-578/Ole Miss(NESEP)/DLG-14/SS-563/SS-567/SSN-584/CSS6/NavSafCen/ York County Public Schools/Virginia Beach City Public Schools/Retired

Hunt for Red October

"The first edition has 18 lines of text on the copyright page, while the book club edition has only 12 lines of text."