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    CLYDE WADDELL (1916 - 1997)
    A YANK`S MEMORIES OF CALCUTTA
    Album of Sixty-Photographs (Silver Gelatin Prints on Paper)
    Published in 1946
    Dimension: Album Cover - 10.25 x 13.5 in / Prints – 8 x 10.2 in each

    Introduction by M. Charles Preston, New York City, 'ex-enlisted man, former CBI'er and co-worker with the author on Phoenix Magazine in Calcutta, India.
    Cover: Black rexine-covered boards; binding held together with nut and bolts, as issued.
    One page of printed title-page cum introduction followed by 60 original silver gelatin prints on paper set into slits in thick sheets, one to a page. Facetious captions to each photograph, printed below in typewriter typeface.
    The back of the title page has dedication, acknowledgements and copyright notice, also printed. The inside of the back page binding cover has logo inscribed with ‘Made By The Universal Bookbindery Inc., San Antonio, Texas'.
    Estimate:
    ₹1,25,000 – ₹1,75,000
    Winning Bid: ₹80,000