Unicorn Folio: Series One, Number Four [Contributor's Copy]

Santa Barbara: Unicorn Press, 1967. First Edition. Limited Edition of 325 copies, of which this is no.10. Folio (50.5cm) light brown paper folder, with 13 loose broadsheets, an illustrated list of contributors, and a biographical sheet on contributors (of varying colors and sizes) all laid in. Typography by Alan Brillant. This copy belongs to contributor Nathaniel Tarn, and in addition to all 10 inserts present as called, Tarn has also laid in a printed slip for The Little Square Review, the title page of Muriel Rukeyser's "The Outer Banks" (with inked price) as published for Unicorn Press, an illustrated slip for Erich Kahler's "The Rallying Idea" with an announcement as published for Unicorn Press, and Michael McClure's large broadside (44cm x 25.5cm) of "Berkeley Song" as printed by Wesley B. Tanner (1988). Folder's paper title label listing contributors no longer pasted to front wrapper, but is present and laid in. Light shelf-wear and creases to corners of folder, with trace soil to covers; Very Good. Broadsides all in Near Fine condition.

Contents include: Thomas Merton's (illustrated) "A Carol", John Haines's (illustrated by Janeen Vanden Berg) "The Dance", Wolfgang Roth's (illustrated) "The first look through the window...", Robert Bly's letter to Roger L. Stevens, Lesson Guillevic's "Blood is a complicated liquid..." as translated by Teo Savory, Nathaniel Tarn's "The Laurel Tree", Eugen Gomringer's "die konstellationen / les constellations / the constellations" as translated by Jerome Rothenberg, Boris Pasternak's "Poem" as translated by George L. Kline, Jaime Sabines's "Does Poemas / Two Poems" as translated by Ellinor Randall, and Lenore Marshall's (illustrated by Janeen Vanden Berg) "Blackout of the Dream". Cover engravings by Jeffrey Sorenson, and printed by Noel Young. [87720].