Mytinger, Melissa, et al. — Unicorn Folio, Series 1, No. 1
Santa Barbara, Calif.: Unicorn Press, 1967. 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. .