THE PERFECT STORM; A True Story of Men Against the Sea

New York and London: W. W. Norton & Company, 1997. First Edition - Later Printing. Cloth and boards. Fine/Fine. Map, chapter headings. SIGNED & EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED by the AUTHOR on the title page with a small SKETCH of a fishing trawler, 8vo (8 1/2" x 5 1/4"), red quarter cloth with black and silver lettering over charcoal boards, illustrated with small square B&W chapter headings & map, Mylar-prtected photographic dust jacket (unclipped) by De Lange, black endpapers, xii + 227 pages. EXCEPTIONAL SIGNED FIRST EDITION in SUPERIOR CONDITION internally & externally with RARE SKETCH by the adventuresome, brave AUTHOR-filmmaker.<br/> <br/> Sebastian Junger (born 1962) is an award-winning American journalist, author, and filmmaker. He became <br/> famous for the best-selling book THE PERFECT STORM: A True Story of Men Against the Sea (1997), <br/> his award-winning chronicle of the war in Afghanistan in the documentary films Restrepo (2010) and Korengal (2014), and his book War (2010).<br/> <br/> This exciting book recounts the tale of the October 1991 "perfect storm" that struck with enormous violence and caused the loss of the Gloucester fishing boat "Andrea Gail" and its six crew members off the coast of Nova Scotia. <br/> <br/> In 2000, Warner Brothers made the book into a major film of the same name, starring George Clooney and Mark Wahlberg, Diane Lane, Karen Allen, and Allen Payne .--Wikipedia adjusted<br/> <br/> First Edition, later printing. SUPERIOR CONDITION.: tight and bright, without extraneous non-authorial writing. Junger's ink inscription and drawing have bled through the title page and show on the copyright page.