On Board With the Duke: John Wayne and the Wild Goose (INSCRIBED)
Washington DC: Seven Locks Press, 1992. 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). Item #22221
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."
Price: $100.00