The Hunt For Red October

by Tom Clancy

£38 · Offered by Adrian Harrington Rare Books

Taipei : Central Publishing Co., 1984. Spy Thriller Taiwanese Pirated edition. Octavo 21 x 14cm , pp. viii ; 387; 3 . Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine, illustrated dust-jacket priced at 14.95. Contents clean, no inscriptions, production crease to rear endpaper, Taipei bookseller ticket/label to same, jacket a little nicked. Scarce pirate edition of the debut novel by Tom Clancy, featuring CIA analyst Jack Ryan. Basis for the 1990 film of

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