THE PERFECT STORM: A True Story of Men Against the Sea
by JUNGER, Sebastian
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Very Good/very good
- Seller
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Chicago, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
New York: W. W. Norton, ( 1997 ). Third Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. 8vo, 227 pages, clothbacked boards; tips of spine bumped
Junger's first book, Signed by Junger on the endpaper. Laid in is a promotional color photograph of him. "It is a terrifying, edifying read." - Dava Sobel.
Junger's first book, Signed by Junger on the endpaper. Laid in is a promotional color photograph of him. "It is a terrifying, edifying read." - Dava Sobel.
Synopsis
The Perfect Storm is a creative nonfiction book written by Sebastian Junger and published by W. W. Norton & Company in 1997. The paperback edition followed in 1999 from HarperCollins' Perennial imprint. The book is about the 1991 Perfect Storm that hit North America in October 1991, and features the crew of the fishing boat Andrea Gail, based out of Gloucester, Massachusetts, who were lost at sea during severe conditions while longline fishing for swordfish 575 miles (925 km) out.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Thomas J. Joyce And Company (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0011092
- Title
- THE PERFECT STORM
- Author
- JUNGER, Sebastian
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Third Printing
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- ( 1997 )
- Keywords
- book into film, swordfishing, commerical fishing, catastrophe,
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About the Seller
Thomas J. Joyce And Company
Biblio member since 2005
Chicago, Illinois
About Thomas J. Joyce And Company
Joyce And Company has been in business as a professional rare bookseller and appraiser since 1975. Owner Thomas Joyce was the regular book appraiser on Home & Garden TV\'s \"The Appraisal Fair\\\" program, on international broadcasts. Thomas Joyce was the co-discoverer of George Washington's personal copy of William Leybourn's 1679 edition of THE COMPLEAT SURVEYOR, from which young Washington learned some of his surveying skills at age 16. The book had vanished for nearly a century until its re-discovery in 2017. It is now back at Mt. Vernon.
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