London: Jonathan Cape, 1973. First Edition. 154pp. Hardcover: NEAR FINE. Dust Wrapper: NEAR FINE. Spine is square, with bright lettering, no marks or inscriptions; modest foxing on the text block. Wrapper has slight toning, else fine. A lovely copy. This is the uncommon UK hardcover edition; cover art by Martin Vaughn-James.

Leonard Cohen's third collection of poetry, the first of Cohen's self-conscious "anti-art" gestures: an attempt, in his own words, to move "from the world of the golden-boy poet into the dung pile of the front-line writer." Advertised on the jacket as "A new sound, provocative, sharply arresting, from the young Montreal poet who established an international reputation as one of Canada's finest writers."