Author Signed and Inscribed, A YANK'S MEMORIES OF CALCUTTA, by Clyde Waddell, introduction by M. Charles Preston privately published in Houston, 1946. Oblong quarto album binding, 60 gelatin silver prints mounted on gray cardstock leaves with printed captions in English text, hardbound in full black cloth over with aluminum screw fasteners at spine. Signed and inscribed "To my good friend/Rev. Bill Deatherage/with warmest/regards/Clyde" en verso of title page. Includes newspaper clippings and a World War II-era pamphlet. 10 1/2" H x 13" W x 1 1/2" D. Note: Clyde Waddell (Texas, 1915-1997) was an American military photographer known for his photographs of Calcutta in 1945. He was chief photographer for the Houston Press before entering the United States Army and then served as a personal press photographer for Supreme Allied Commander Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten and as a news photographer for Phoenix Magazine. (source: "Clyde Waddell: 'A Yank's Memories of Calcutta.'" British Library. Retrieved 27 August 2014.)

CONDITION: Covers with expected wear, scuffs, losses, fraying to cloth, corners bumped. Title page and cradstock leaves with rubbing, toning, areas of flaking and tears to edges. Prints are collated.