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Beautiful Losers
by Cohen, Leonard
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Good/Good
- Seller
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Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. 8vo. Pp. 243. Black cloth with blind stamped image to the front board and gilt spine. The corners and spine ends lightly bumped and the cloth rubbed, and the gilt to the spine very dulled. Dust jacket with several creases and small nicks o the edges, lightly chipped corners, and the front flap splitting at the top and bottom. This copy from the library of Canadian poet and GG award winner, Eli Mandel, inscribed to Eli Mandel from Leonard Cohen. With some pencil underlining, and some ink underlining to only a few lines on a few pages, done by Mandel. A nice association copy and early Cohen signature. First Canadian Edition.
Synopsis
Beautiful Losers is a novel by Leonard Cohen. Published in 1966 by McClelland and Stewart, it was the Canadian novelist-poet's second novel, and precedes his career as a singer-songwriter. It is noted as being perhaps Cohen's most defiant and uninhibited work, and is also one of the best-known experimental novels to be published during the 1960s.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Karol Krysik Books, ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 47345
- Title
- Beautiful Losers
- Author
- Cohen, Leonard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- McClelland and Stewart
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Date Published
- 1966
Terms of Sale
Karol Krysik Books, ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Karol Krysik Books, ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA
Biblio member since 2012
Toronto, Ontario
About Karol Krysik Books, ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA
Interesting and unusual books and printed matter. Visual items, illustrated books, private press, mythology/folklore, modern first editions. Member of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of Canada (ABAC) and theIndependent Online Booksellers Association (IOBA)
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