The Favourite Game
by Cohen, Leonard
This warm and lyrical semi-autobiographical first novel by singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen charts the coming of age of Lawrence Breavman, the only son of a Jewish Montreal family.'Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the world is made flesh.'Lawrence Breavman seeks two things: love and beauty. Beginning with the innocent games of delicious misadventure with first love Lisa and the absorbing wanders through Montreal with best friend Krantz, Breavman's tale is a distant echo of 'Catcher in the Rye' and 'Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man' – injected with 1960s aesthetics and Cohen's unique poetry. As Breavman grows into a young man, the emerging writer continues his quest for beauty and love, finding himself in the arms of Shell and a burgeoning realisation of his own talent for appreciating majesty in the grotesque. Semi-autobiographical, the angst and beauty of Cohen's voice deftly channel the painful confusion of the journey into adulthood, and the friendships, wars and lovers that are our guides.
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The Favourite Game.
by Cohen, Leonard.
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- 1963
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London: Secker & Warburg.. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1963. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. First British edition & 'true' first printing. Fine in fine dust jacket. Writer Larry McMurtry's copy with his 'spur' bookplate on front paste-down. Author's FIRST novel with a significant association. ; 5 1/2" X 8"; 223 pages .
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The Favourite Game
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London: Secker & Warburg, 1963. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. First edition. Silver lettered green cloth in decorative dust jacket. Cohen's first book of prose. A light bump to one corner and the spine head, dust jacket with a few light smudges, one at the spine head. A particularly nice copy.
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The Favourite Game
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London: Secker & Warburg, 1963. 223 pp. Octavo. Original green cloth with silver lettering on spine. Illustrated dustjacket which is not price clipped. A very small amount of fading on the spine. Very slightly soiled otherwise in very nice condition. Text block is clean and square. A very nice copy of the UK first edition.… Read more
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The Favourite Game.
by COHEN, Leonard.
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London: Secker & Warburg, 1963. First edition, first impression, of the author's first novel. The Favourite Game is a bildungsroman of sexual and romantic experience that Cohen's publishers balked at. In 1959, he was awarded a Canada Council grant of $2000, which he used to sustain himself while he wrote this book.
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London: Martin Secker & Warburg, 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good +/Good. 223 p. 20.5 cm. Green hardcover in mylar-covered dustjacket designed by Barry Trengove. Some soiling to jacket and small chips to spine ends. Light foxing to text block edge.
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223 pages.1st British edition. Dark Green boards with bright silver gilt titles on the spine. Unmarked book. The jacket shows very light wear and discolouration, price-clipped, otherwise in very good condition.
Cohen's first novel.
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by Leonard Cohen
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London: Secker & Warburg 1963, 1st British printing. (Hardcover) 223pp. Very good, no dust jacket. Green boards. A previous owner's name on the front endpaper, the half-title page is creased, and the edges are lightly soiled. (Fiction, Canadian).
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Jonathan Cape 1970. FIRST UK EDITION, octavo, black heavy card boards, gilt lettering to spine, top page edges stained red, 248pp, VG (light bruising to board corners, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, owner's name in ink to fep) in d/w, VG- (moderate creasing to edges with ugly sellotape repairs, light scuffing to spine, all corners… Read more
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The Favourite Game
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London: Jonathan Cape, 1970. Hard covers in tidy, used condition, with a similar rubbed and chipped dust jacket, page edges a little browned, an inscription to a previous owner, first thus. Hardcover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1970-09-10. Hardcover. Good. 3.2995 in x 22.3350 in x 14.7208 in. Clean copy in good condition.
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Toronto: McClelland and Stewart Limited, 1970. New Canadian Library N73. A very nice copy with interiors lightly tanned and unmarked. Cover shows only light shelfwear. Spine is uncreased. A very nice copy.. 3rd Paperback Printing. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall.
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Black Spring Press Ltd. Near Fine. 1994. Softcover. 0948238208 . Very light scratching to covers. Some toning to paper. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 256 pp .
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The Favourite Game
by Leonard Cohen
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- 1970
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Toronto: New Canadian Library, 1970. 2nd Edition . Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine. Near fine second Canadian paperback edition. Clean, square, binding tight. No tears, creases, or marks. Minor overall wear. A very nice early paperback copy of Cohen's first novel.
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The Favourite Game
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Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1970-09-10. Hardcover. Acceptable. 3.2995 cent in x 22.3350 cent in x 14.7208 cent in.
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The Favourite Game
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McClelland & Stewart, 2000-01-01. First Thus. Paperback. Good.
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Mcclelland & Stewart Ltd, 1988. Soft cover. Very Good. Almost new paperback except for age toning to pages. Appears unread. No spine crease. No private ownership marks. Text is clean, unmarked, tight. (Shelf location: BO1) All items carefully packed to avoid damage from moisture and rough handling. Tracking included.
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The Favourite Game
by Leonard Cohen
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- 1963
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Avon , 1963. First Edition. Paperback. very Good. this copy has a solid tight binding and clean unmarked pages......light edge wear to the cover edges.....
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Toronto: McClelland & Stewart. Soft cover. Near Fine. 16mo. The New Canadian Library Series. Paperback. 239pp. Light rubbing to edges and extremities, o/w near fine. "The Favourite Game is a shrewd appraisal of the human comedy, where 'the favourite game' is love.
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The Favourite Game
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Toronto: McClelland & Stewart Ltd. [0-7710-2201-8] 1963. (Mass market paperback) 245pp. Fine. 8vo. Remainder copy, with a line at the lower edge; otherwise, fine copy of this iconic Canadian classic..
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The Favourite Game
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Hardback. Very Good.
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The Favourite Game (New Canadian Library)
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Tight, clean and unmarked-" In this unforgettable novel, Leonard Cohen boldly etches the youth and early manhood of Lawrence Breavman, the only son of an old Jewish family in Montreal. Life for Breavman is made up of dazzling colour a series of motion pictures fed through a high-speed projector: the half-understood death of his father; the adult games of… Read more
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Favourite Game
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Panther, 1973-01-01. Paperback. Very Good. 1.7766 in x 21.3198 in x 13.4518 in.
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The Favourite Game
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The Favourite Game
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The Favourite Game
by Leonard Cohen
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Favourite Game, The
by Cohen Leonard
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- 1971
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The Favourite Game
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The Favourite Game
by Leonard Cohen
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The Favourite Game
by Leonard Cohen
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Paperback / softback. New. This warm and lyrical semi-autobiographical first novel by singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen charts the coming of age of Lawrence Breavman, the only son of a Jewish Montreal family.
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Favourite Game
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HarperCollins Distribution Servi, 1973-01-01. Paperback. Good. 1.7766 cent in x 21.3198 cent in x 13.4518 cent in.
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The Favourite Game
by Leonard Cohen
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Panther, UK, 1973. Paperback. Book Condition: Good. Moderate reading wear. Clean interior..
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The Favourite Game (New Canadian Library)
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The Favourite Game
by Cohen, Leonard
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Fine. Light wear on the edges and discoloration due to its age, otherwise it is like new, tight with clean unmarked pages. Quality Books... Because We Care - Shipped from Canada. Usually ships within 1-2 business days. If you buy this book from us, we will donate a book to a local school. We donate 10,000+ books to… Read more
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The Favourite Game
by COHEN Leonard
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- 1973
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St Albans: Panther, 1973 (500 gram rate) small nicks from for edge of front wrapper, slight bow to book, aged paper stock but still clean tidy copy, first thus paperback edition, 219pp + adverts. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall.
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The Favorite Game
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New York: Avon, 1969. Paperback. pp. 192. 8vo. Slight scuffing to covers with slight loss to corners; good+.
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