The Hunt for Red October - Tom Clancy

Okay, so I'm 22 years behind.  I have been meaning to read some Clancy, but wanted to start with the original, The Hunt for Red October.  But I wanted to get a copy of the original edition, published by my old friend the Naval Institute Press in 1984, when Clancy couldn't get published anywhere else.  The NIP's decision to publish THFRO was an unusual one - it was the first time they had ever published a work of fiction - but it turned out to be the beginning of something big.
I found this copy in Nicholas Potter Bookseller in Santa Fe last weekend for $12.50, and snatched it up.  It is dated 1984 and has no printing information inside.  Research online indicates that it isn't the same-year Book Club edition, and there is no indication that it is anything other than a first edition.  Prices only vary widely - many similar copies are actually in the single digits, while another is listed at $750.  So I have no idea what this copy is worth, but the important thing is that it is what I wanted - a first edition (whatever printing) by the NIP. 
Finished the book in just a few days, and really enjoyed it.  It's a well-written story, with lots of "high tech" toys, but reading it today the technology Clancy lavished so much attention on is laughably obsolete.  Computers running Wordstar with files on separate floppies (boy, do I remember those days), and running programs on enormous Cray-2 "supercomputers" - it's all so nostalgic no.  But it tells a really good story.  Although by the end, as good as the story was, I was realizing that the 1990 movie was actually better.  Still, a really good read.