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COHEN, Leonard (1934-2016). Beautiful Losers. New York: The Viking Press, 1966.
Presentation copy to Marianne of the first edition of Cohen’s second and final novel, written amid hallucinatory bouts of fasting and amphetamine-taking in Hydra between 1964-1965. An early work of Canadian postmodern metafiction, Cohen couldn’t get it published in Britain because, with its vivid descriptions of sex, homosexuality and bisexuality, it was considered too obscene. 'They didn’t realise that I wasn’t turning people on to sex but putting it down'.
Octavo (213 x 135mm). Original black cloth boards, lettered in silver and gilt on spine (without the dust-jacket, a few faint marks, spine somewhat faded, front joint loosening). Autograph sketch of a landscape with inscription in green ink: 'For Marianne / all my love / Leonard / Montreal / April 1966'. Provenance: by descent from Marianne Ihlen.
Presentation copy to Marianne of the first edition of Cohen’s second and final novel, written amid hallucinatory bouts of fasting and amphetamine-taking in Hydra between 1964-1965. An early work of Canadian postmodern metafiction, Cohen couldn’t get it published in Britain because, with its vivid descriptions of sex, homosexuality and bisexuality, it was considered too obscene. 'They didn’t realise that I wasn’t turning people on to sex but putting it down'.
Octavo (213 x 135mm). Original black cloth boards, lettered in silver and gilt on spine (without the dust-jacket, a few faint marks, spine somewhat faded, front joint loosening). Autograph sketch of a landscape with inscription in green ink: 'For Marianne / all my love / Leonard / Montreal / April 1966'. Provenance: by descent from Marianne Ihlen.
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