Cohen, Leonard — Beautiful Losers [First British Printing]

London Jonathan Cape First British Edition pp. [1-2], 3-243. Red paper boards with title stamped in gilt to the spine, black endpapers, publisher's like black topstain. A lovely copy, very lightly rubbed, showing only trifle bumping to spine ends, contents bright and unmarked with firm, sound binding; very good+. Housed in its original, first-state, pictorial dustjacket bearing original price of 30s to inner-panel, lightly rubbed with some negligible wear along the edges of the panels (now housed in protective mylar sleeve). Overall, very good. ¶ "This is the first publication in Britain of Leonard Cohen's legendary Beautiful Losers - the 'gorgeously written...anguished, overwhelming...prose poem', 'swirling hallucinatory, heraldic, squirty, intensely physical, tensely metaphysical, novel' which was shocked, elated, puzzled and provoked an international readership since it first appeared in America."