^Lot 160 Crile: More than Booty

Crile, Jane & Barney Crile. MORE THAN BOOTY. McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York. 1965. 12mo. xvi, 188, (4) pages. original Khaki cloth, lettered in dark green, protected jacket. Inscribed by the author to Art McKee. First Edition, second printing. English text. Ex McKee's Museum; Ex Dick Holt Library. jacket chipped, sun-faded spine, Very Good. This book is an intimate, biographical memoir that chronicled the travel adventures and 29-year marriage of Cleveland Clinic surgeon Dr. George "Barney" Crile Jr. and his first wife, Jane Halle Crile. The couple shared a deep passion for nature and global exploration, filling their lives with open-sea scuba diving, amateur archaeology, and marine biology. More than just a travelogue, the text serves as a poignant tribute to their deep marital partnership and documents their final emotional journey together leading up to Jane's tragic death from breast cancer in 1963. Lot weight: 0 lbs 15oz. Subject(s): Maritime History, Seafaring, Diving, Memoir.