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Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition, incomplete set. Folio album, olive type on thick chartreuse paper, folded in half measuring approx. 14 x 21 inches with abstract block print design under pasted inset list of eight poets' names. Folio is laid in protective olive sleeve. Printed by Noel Young and designed by Alan Brilliant in a hand-numbered edition of 325 copies (colophon on back of laid-in sheet detailing contributors to issue). Contains the following broadsides: "Willing to Be " by Madeline Gleason, "December 20, 1966" and "Three Poems" by Ken Maytag (with rice paper sheet laid in to protect "December 20, 1966"), "Can We Love and Play and Know" by Melissa Mytinger (broadside has large silkscreen print in blue and green), " Barbara" by Jacques Prevert, "Little Allegories of Canada" by Miriam Waddington, "The Poem as Mask: Orpheus" by Muriel Rukeyser, and "Strip-Tease"/"Lettish Saga" by Andrei Voznesensky. Noted in McNeil A14a. Missing "Go Round" by Gary Snyder, else very good.
Seller: Wittenborn Art Books, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$160.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Broadsides are Very Fine. Folders are Very Good; mild bumping to extremities; minor stains; a bit of silverfishing near edges; else Fine. Included are "Go Round" by Gary Snyder; "Willing to Be" by Madeline Gleason; "Strip-Tease" and "Lettish Saga" by Andrei Voznesensky; "Barbara" by Jacques Prevert; "Little Allegories of Canada/Montreal: All French Speaking Here" by Miriam Waddington; "Ice Cream Bars", "A Poem to Not One or Another but to All", and "December 20, 1966" by Ken Maytag. Signed by Ken Maytag below his name at the end of "December 20, 1966", which also has a captioned tissue guard reading "December 20, 1966 by Ken Maytag on handmade paper hand-set in 18 Pt. Perpetua type by Alan Brilliant." Contributions by Melissa Mytinger and Muriel Rukeyser are missing. Limitation page notes: "325 Copies of this folio were printed by Noel Young with typography and devices by Alan Brilliant. [This is] No. 2. Published by The Unicorn Press to commemorate the opening of The Unicorn Book Shop January 2, 1967." Above his name is signed "With thanks, Alan Brilliant." This copy from the estate of Ann Hyde Greet, a UC Santa Barbara professor noted for her translations and scholarly work on French poets; one of her own original poems, plus translations of poems by Pierre Reverdy, are featured in Unicorn Folio, Series Two, Number One. Ken Maytag was the general manager of the Unicorn Book Shop and publisher of Unicorn Press. Alan Brilliant, along with Jack Shoemaker and Al's spouse, the poet, novelist, and translator, Teo Savory, founded both the Book Shop and the Press. Teo translated the Prevert poem for this issue. Unicorn Press moved to Greensboro, NC, in 1973, and is still in operation.
Seller: Montecito Rare Books, Goleta, CA, U.S.A.