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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: used very good. 22 maylight jacket wear.

First Edition. INSCRIBED Bert "To dear Susie, Dave & family - You can relate to these stories better than most people, Susie - as you were there! Best wishes - Love, Bert, July '94". 168 pp. Color and black & white photographic illustrations. A fine copy in very good dustjacket (short closed tears; wear to extremities; tape repair upper front spine). The author, Bert Minshall was John Wayne's good friend and confidant as well as the captain of Wayne's 136-foot ship, a former U.S. Navy minesweeper, named Wild Goose. In his memoir, Bert shares many entertaining stories revealing ". the legendary Duke: charismatic, fun-loving, occasionally difficult and prone to angry outbursts, a movie star who enjoyed a good laugh or a prank with the abandon of a young boy, a sailor at heart who delighted in his big, aging navy workhorse.".