Copyright © 2009 by Leonard Cohen
This omnibus edition published in 2009 by McClelland & Stewart
The Favourite Game: Copyright © 1963 by Leonard Cohen
First published in England by Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd., 1963
Beautiful Losers: Copyright © 1966 by Leonard Cohen
First published by McClelland & Stewart in 1966
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Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication
Cohen, Leonard, 1934–
The favourite game & Beautiful losers / Leonard Cohen.
eISBN: 978-1-55199-309-6
I. Cohen, Leonard, 1934–. Beautiful losers. II. Title.
PS8505.022F3 2009 C813′.54 C2009-901782-2
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