LEONARD COHEN. — The Favourite Game. A novel.

Secker & Warburg, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 223pp. Green boards lettered in silver at the spine. Top edge fractionally dust soiled, else a fine copy in very good price-clipped pictorial dust wrapper, lightly toned at the spine panel, and with just a trace of dust soiling and edge-wear. Former owner name inked to the head of the front flap of the wrapper. The author's first novel, written between 1959-60 while Cohen was living in Hydra and London, and partly financed by a Canada Council grant of $2,000, the finished manuscript was rejected by his Canadian publisher and eventually published in the UK and then in the US (with an Americanised title) following some not insignificant edits (about which Cohen wrote "anyone with an ear will know I've torn apart orchestras to arrive at my straight, melodic line"). The novel was not published in Canada for a further seven years., Near Fine, Very Good