CREDITS
The epigraph poem and others quoted in The Favourite Game are from The Spice Box of Earth by Leonard Cohen, and are reprinted by kind permission of the publishers, McClelland & Stewart Ltd.
The lyrics on page 37 are from “The Girl That I Marry” by Irving Berlin. Copyright © 1946 (Renewed) by Irving Berlin. All rights for the world, excluding the U.S., China, Japan, Okinawa controlled by Warner Chappell Music Ltd. All rights reserved. Used by permission of Warner Bros. Publications U.S. Inc., Miami, FL. 33014.
The lyrics on page 44 are from “Near You” by Kermit Goell and Francis Craig. Copyright © 1947 (Renewed) by Supreme Music Corporation. All rights administered by WB Music Corp. All rights reserved. Used by permission of Warner Bros. Publications U.S. Inc., Miami, FL. 33014.
The lyrics on pages 102-103 are from “I Almost Lost My Mind” by Ivory Joe Hunter © 1956 (Renewed) by Unichappell Music, Inc. All rights reserved. Used by permission of Warner Bros. Publications U.S. Inc., Miami, FL. 33014.
The lyrics quoted on pages 326–330 are from “It Hurt Me Too” by M. Gaye and W Stevenson. Copyright © 1962 by Jobete Music Co., Inc. All rights reserved.
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
All rights reserved. The use of any part of this publication reproduced, transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, or stored in a retrieval system, without the prior written consent of the publisher – or, in case of photocopying or other reprographic copying, a licence from the Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency - is an infringement of the copyright law.
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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