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AUDEN, W.H. The Double Man . New York: Random House, 1941. 8 o. (Some light browning to endpages.) Original red cloth; printed dust jacket (few tape repairs on verso, price clipped). Provenance : Don Elder (1913-1965), editor and writer (presentation inscription). FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY AUDEN TO DONALD ELDER on the front free endpaper: "Donald with much love from Wystan, 328 E. 53. N.Y.C. June 1942." 2,000 copies of the first edition were printed. Donald Elder was an editor with Doubleday, Doran and Co. and wrote a biography of Ring Lardner. The Double Man was Auden's only book that combined poems and prose notes in the style of Eliot's Waste Land . Bloomfield and Mendelson A24.