How to re-add Recovery to Mavericks

I had a Recovery HD in Mountain Lion, but when I clean installed Mavericks, the Recovery Drive disappeared [or never showed up]. I did not even notice for quite a while as I was busy putting together my New system. By that time I had gone to 9.1 and then 9.2 which did not naturally address the issue. I am not sure how to do a re-install without Recovery, short of another clean install which I would rather not do now...
For one thing, I need to reduce my main internal drive to 1 partition. The other DU settings appear correct & amenable to Recovery Disk.
So how do I get from here to there? I need to download 9.3 somewhere in the process. Should I use a regular update or a combo file? If combo, what are steps to install?
I am drawing blanks so any help appreciated.

Björn Herrmann wrote:
Csound1, it is you who is wrong. That is no licensing violation since Mavericks is free.
Cost has nothing to do with Licensing. Mavericks may not be transferred, it is licensed to the original account holder of the account that downloaded it.
Here is the relevant section of the Mavericks EULA
3. Transfer.
A. If you obtained the Apple Software preinstalled on Apple-branded hardware, you may make a one-time permanent transfer of all of your license rights to the Apple Software (in its original form as provided by Apple) to another party, provided that: the Apple Software is transferred together with your Apple-branded hardware; (ii) the transfer must include all of the Apple Software, including all its component parts, printed materials and this License; (iii) you do not retain any copies of the Apple Software, full or partial, including copies stored on a computer or other storage device; and (iv) the party receiving the Apple Software accepts the terms and conditions of this License. For purposes of this License, if Apple provides an update (e.g., version 10.9 to 10.9.1) to the Apple Software, the update is considered part of the Apple Software and may not be transferred separately from the pre-update version of the Apple Software.
B. If you obtained your license to the Apple Software from the Mac App Store, it is not transferable. If you sell your Apple-branded hardware to a third party, you must remove the Apple Software from the Apple-branded hardware before doing so, and you may restore your original version of OS X.
Reinstalling it will require the user ID and password of the account that downloaded it.
The rest of your information is not quite as bad as that, but not good either.

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