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Book of Longing
by Leonard Cohen
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine/fine
- ISBN 10
- 006112558X
- ISBN 13
- 9780061125584
- Seller
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Chicago, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
Ecco, 2006. Early printing. Hardcover. Fine/fine. 8vo, 231 pages, cloth
Illustrated.
Illustrated.
Synopsis
Book of Longing is the first new poetry book by Leonard Cohen since 1984's Book of Mercy. First published in 2006 by McClelland and Stewart, Book of Longing contains 167 previously unpublished poems and drawings, mostly written at a Zen monastery on Mount Baldy in California, where Cohen lived from 1994 to 1999, and in India, which he visited regularly during the late 1990s.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Thomas J. Joyce And Company (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5185
- Title
- Book of Longing
- Author
- Leonard Cohen
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Early printing
- ISBN 10
- 006112558X
- ISBN 13
- 9780061125584
- Publisher
- Ecco
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2006
- Keywords
- leonard cohen,
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About the Seller
Thomas J. Joyce And Company
Biblio member since 2005
Chicago, Illinois
About Thomas J. Joyce And Company
Joyce And Company has been in business as a professional rare bookseller and appraiser since 1975. Owner Thomas Joyce was the regular book appraiser on Home & Garden TV\'s \"The Appraisal Fair\\\" program, on international broadcasts. Thomas Joyce was the co-discoverer of George Washington's personal copy of William Leybourn's 1679 edition of THE COMPLEAT SURVEYOR, from which young Washington learned some of his surveying skills at age 16. The book had vanished for nearly a century until its re-discovery in 2017. It is now back at Mt. Vernon.
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