The Viking Press, New York, 1966. First Edition. 243pp. Hardcover: NEAR FINE. Dust Wrapper: NEAR FINE. Minor foxing on the text block; stain on the flyleaves. Wrapper shows some chipping around the edges.

Beautiful Losers is the second and final novel by Canadian writer and musician Leonard Cohen, and was published in 1966, before he began his career as a singer-songwriter. Set in the Canadian province of Quebec, the story of 17th-century Mohawk saint Catherine Tekakwitha is interwoven with a love triangle. The complex novel makes use of a wide range of literary techniques, and a wealth of allusion, imagery, and symbolism It is filled with the mysticism, radicalism, sexuality, and drug-taking emblematic of the 1960s era. A great copy of Canada's first truly postmodern novel.